THE 
FAMILY ADVISER; 
A PLAIN AND MODERN 
OR, 
PRACTICE of PHYSIC : 
CALCULATED 
For the Ufa of Families who have not the Advantage 
of a Phyfician, 
AND ACCOMMODATED TO THE 
DISEASES of AMERICA. 
HENRY WILKINS, M. D. 
THE THIRD EDITION, CORRKC T E D. 
TO WHICH IS ANNEXED 
Mr. WESLEY’s PRIMITIVE PHYSIC, 
REVISED. 
PHILADELPHIA: 
Printed by Solomon IF. Conrad, No. 22, Pew- 
ter-Platter Alley, for Ezekiel Cooper., 
No. 118, North Fourth-street, near 
the Methodist Church. 
1801. PREFACE. 
The fubfiance of the following pages is 
chiefly drawn from thofe excellent authors, 
Home, Cullen, and M‘Bride; whofe names 
alone arc a fuflicient recommendation: They 
were compiled at the requefl; of our friend 
Mr. Albury. 
The work contains a good defcription of 
each diforder, and its remote caufes, as far 
as known. The proximate caufe is gene- 
rally omitted, being unintelligible to thole 
who are not acquainted with medicine, of 
little life, and much difputed by Phylicians. 
The cure is as Ample as pofiible, fo as not 
to interfere with efficacy: few medicines 
being recommended, and no compounds 
where they could be omitted. To this is 
prefixed the management of the fick, about 
which the attendants are ufually much at a 
lofs. 
Such medicines as are frequently ufed are 
put at the end, numbered and referred to, 
which prevents frequent repetition ; but 
thofe that are not fo general, are inferted in 
the reading. Will not this be much more 
agreeable to the reader, than a general re- 
ference or a general infertion ? PREFACE. 
A few diforders are omitted, becaufe they 
are not proper to this country, or becaufe 
they are unmanageable even in the hands of 
Phyficians, or for other as good reafons: 
otherwifc it comprehends as many diforders 
as Dr. Cullen has treated on. 
It is recommended to the Methodift So- 
ciety in particular, by their Friend, 
THE AUTHOR. 
Philadelphia, .1793, THE 
FAMILY ADVISER, £cc. 
CHAP. I. 
OF FEVERS IN GENERAL. 
FEVERS, admit of a twodrcdd diftinftion ; firR, 
hvith refpedl to their duration ; as into Continued, 
Remittent arid Intermittent Fevers. 
Continued fevers*, go to their end, without any very 
obvious change for better or worfe, iu a period of 
twenty-four hours. 
Remittent fevers, either obvloufly - abate at feme 
period or periods during twenty-four hours, or are like 
a number of Ihort continued fevers linked together, 
abating once in the courfe of two or three or more 
days. 
Intermittents, go perfe&ly off every day, and return 
the next, which is caHed a Quotidian 4 or every other 
day, leaving an intermediate well day, tailed Terti- 
ans ] or every fourth day inclufive, leaving two well 
days, called Quartans. In this manner they go and 
come till they change, or finifh their courfe. 
The fscond diftin&ion refpedls the Rate of the 
fydem ; as Inflammatory, Nervous aim Putrid fevers. 
Infemmatory fevers, fliow more or lei's die fymptoms 
of general inflammation ; flrong action and an abfeucc 
of every fymptom of putridity and inffeafibUity $ they 
ane moft commonly continued. 
jferxous fevers, ihow a general debility, inl’cnRbi- 
lity and irregularity, without any fytnptoms of the fluids tending much to dlflblution ; though a flight and 
flow tendency is obfsrvable, after they have continued 
for fome time. 
Putrid fevers, fometimes fhow figns of inflammatory 
nftien for a while ; but thefe quickly give way to 
fymptoms of putrefaction, viz. blacknefs of the gums 
and tongue ; from being lined with foetid fecretions: 
a blacknefs and foetor of what is difcharged by vomit- 
ing, which ufually attends: and the fame appearance 
of many of the fecretions and excretions, particularly 
the dools ; to which may be added a quick fucceediug 
debility. 
CHAP. 'II 
INFLAMMATORY FEVER. 
THIS fever, mod frequently attacks the young in 
the vigour of their life; fuch as are of a rudic 
fanguine athletic conftitutkm, who indulge themfelves 
in living freely ; though fufficient caufes will bring it 
on in fome degree, in almod any conditution and way 
of living. It attacks at all fealbns, but mod frequent- 
ly in the fpring and beginning of dimmer. 
Causes. Heat and cold alternately, or varioufly ap- 
plied, fatigue, anger, immoderate ule of fpirituous li- 
quors, watching, Sec. See. 
Symptoms. It difeovers Ltfelf by a laffitude, with a 
dull fenfation of the body, debility, alternating chills 
and heats, tremors, pains-throughout the whole body, 
but more particularly about the fhouklers, back, knees 
and head. Thefe are fucceeded by an intenfe and 
burning heat, an inextinguifliable third, inflamed 
eyes, tumefaflion or fulneis of the face, freknefs and 
vomiting, inquietude, anxiety, full and drong pulfe, dry 
Ikin, red (though fometimes watery) urine ; rough, dry, 
yellow,, or dark coloured tongue, covered with a crud ; 
difficult breathing, codivenefs, cough, watching, de- 
lirium, dupor; and if the fever is net checked, a co- ma, or condant tendency to deep, tremors, partial 
convulfions, as of the hands, £cc. hiccough, involunta- 
ry difeharges of the belly and bladder take place and 
clofe the feene in death. This is a defeription of It 
in its mod violent degree. In the greated number 
of cafes, we mpet with it far more moderate ; a 
ftrong pulfe, lick domach and third being the chief 
fymptoms. 
Management. The patient Ihould be confined to 
his bed, in a cool, dark and filent room ; the cool- 
nefs to be regulated by the fcafon. He fhould ab- 
ftain from all kinds of meats and drong drinks. For 
food ; panada, barley, jellies, light unfeafoned puddings 
and pies, may be given in fmall quantity. For drink; 
lemonade, vinegar and water, barley water, herb teas 
with lemon juice, apple water, tamarind water or jelly 
and water, may be given largely. 
Cure. If the fever be violent, and the patient as de« 
feribed in the fird paragraph of the cafe, from half 
to two thirds of a pint of blood fhould be taken away 
(according to the age and cudoms of the patient) as 
quick as pofhble ; which may be repeated the next day- 
in leffer quantity, if the fever has not abated. After 
the fird bleeding let him take one ounce of Glauber 
falts, which will frequently exclude the necedity of 
another bleeding. After this the bowels diould be 
opened daily, if required, by a common clyder. If 
after one bleeding and a dole of falts, the fever 
does not go off, which it feldom does, let the pati- 
ent have one of the powders No. 1. every two hours, 
provided they will remain on his domach : but if they 
will not, give the falinc mixture No. 2. two table-fpoon- 
fuls every two hours ; and after this has been gives 
feme time, if the patient’s Ikin become foft and mold, 
it diould be continued in, otherwife lay it afide and 
try the powders again. If thefe, when given for a day 
or two, do not leffch the fever, or if they w ill not re- 
main, and the faline mixture is inefFeftual, and withal 
bleeding has been praCtifed as far as prudent; it will 
then be neceffary to put a bllder on the back of the neck, and to foak the patient's feet in lukewarm wa- 
ter for an hour, if he can bear it ; after this try the 
powders, or the mixture again, and they will then have 
their only chance, and in many cafes will be cfiedfual. 
la the Slighter cafes of this fever, fnch as I have 
faid, we moll commonly meet with. If the patient 
will allow of it, one bleeding will be proper, after 
which, or in fuch as will not allow bleeding, give a 
puke; two grains of tartar emetic-divided into three 
dolcir. and taken in half an hour, or fifteen grains of 
ipecacuana, or half a table-fpoonful of antimonral wine 
will anfwer ; after which gave the powders or tire mix- 
ture, and open the bowels with a dofe of falts. After 
the fever has gone off, which ufually is attended with 
a five at, if the patient is much reduced, let him take 
a tea-fpoonful of bark in port, wine, or in water every 
three hours till he has taken an ouftce, after which he 
may take one c» two more at longer intervals. He 
ihould ufe gentle exercife in a carriage, and return 
gradually to his bufmefs and diet. 
There is a fever which has the name of fynochus, 
which in the firtt ftage is of the above type, but after 
a while quickly changes to the putrid, to be hereafter 
deferibed* In fuch a cafe all the management and cure 
above, fliould be relmquilhed aa foon as the change is 
obierved, and the management and cure for the putrid 
immediately adopted. 
CHAP. III. 
* I' ’'HOSE of relaxed fibres and weak nervous fyftem, 
& are the perfons moll fubjeft to this fever. 
Causes, Excelfive evacuations, repeated falivatiOhs, 
immoderate venery, dcprelTicns of the mind from 
grief, watching and night ftudy, humid Aignant air 
of fubterraheous apartments, indigeflible food, tfpeci- 
ally fuch as is unfit for nutrition ; as of cold watery 
fruits and vegetables ; thin tdcathing, rainy feafons, 
felt «oift winter, &c. 
NERVOVS FEVER. Symptoms, Tills fever approaches with deje&ioti 
of mind, lofs of appetite,, oppreffion, fleepleffnefs, in- 
voluntary groans, repeated fighs, fear, unufual latitude 
after motion, and alternate fucceffions of cold and heat. 
After fome days, a fwimming or pain in the head 
comes on with Tick ftomach and vomiting of infipid 
phlegm, great weaknefs, moderate heat, infenfibility 
to third ; frequent, weak, and fometimes intermitting 
pulfe; a mold tongue, fometimes red and at other 
times covered with a white or yellowilh tough mucus ; 
dry lips, oppreffion about the bread and difficult 
breathing, pale watery or whey-like urine : a dull 
fenfe of pains about the bread and head, dozing, deli- 
rium, rednefs and warmth of the face, whild the feet 
are cold ; a tendency and difpofition to be eafily and 
frequently didurbed by dreams:—after thefe have taken 
place and continued fome time, they are followed by 
immoderate fweats and wading laxes, great dulnefs 
and flothfulnefs of the external and internal fenfes, anxi- 
ety and fainting. And now nature being exhauded by 
the diforder, the tongue trembles, the extremities 
from a colJncfs become cold, the nails turn livid, fight 
and hearing perlfh, the delirium turns to a coma, the 
belly and bladder are involuntarily evacuated, topi- 
cal coavulfions come on, and death clofes the feene, 
ufually before the fourteenth day. The fyniptoms in- 
creafe in the evening.—The delirium is only a mutter- 
ing continually ; quite different from the delirium of 
the former fever : though in this there is generally a 
great infenfibility, and towards the end a lofs of fight 
and hearing, yet at times in the beginning there is a 
great and preternatural fenfibility to light and nolle : 
fometimes an eruption like millet feed appears without 
any alteration for better or worfe. A continuance of 
this fever has brought on temporal idiotilm, which 
vanifl.ed with the delility. 
Management. The patient fhould be confined to his 
bed in any airy darkened room, and kept agreeably 
warm or cool, according to the feafon. His room, 
bed and body clothes, face, hands and feet fhould be kept clean. His diet fhould be light though nourifh- 
ing, and given frequently, rather than in large quan- 
tities at once ; it fhould be mild : chicken water and 
broth, or beef tea may be given if the patient defires 
it, and the effect proves it to be ufeful ; but the gene- 
ral flock of food fhould coufifl of the various prepara>- 
tions of mild, digeflible, nouvi filing vegetables, fuf- 
ficiently well known to every houfe-keeper; thefe 
fhould be fuited to the patient’s appetite, and chang- 
ed fo as not to pall him with any one. Wine and 
water may be ufed from the beginning, though then 
it may only be given to allay the tbirft, and fliould be 
made weak : five or fix times a day a cup full may be 
given, even though the patient do not afk for it; but 
as the flrength fails it fhould be made ftninger and 
flronger, and given in as large quantity as a pertbn in 
health could take. When the wine has not the effeft 
of incrcaflng the fymtoms and rendering the pulfe too 
■quick, it may be lately continued in.—Claret is fup- 
pofed to be the bell. 
Curt, A gentle vomit of 12 grains of rpecacuana 
in a little water may be given in the beginning, and 
may be repeated the next day. The bowels fhould 
be opened with thirty grains of rhubarb, and coftive- 
nefs continually prevented by fmall dofes of the fame 
medicine. A blifler fhould be applied to the fide 
early in the difeafey-and when it has drawn, the water 
let out, and the part dreffed with a colewort leaf 
or a little Turner’s cerate ; after this another may be 
applied to the other fide, or to the back of the neck, 
provided no bad fymptoms follow the firft, if they do, 
blifters Ihould be laid afide till a ftate of infenfibility 
comes on, when they fhould be applied fircceffively, 
as long as they are attended with advantage. If the 
patient’s fkin be dry in the beginning, let him take 
three or four grains of James’ powder, in thick fyrup 
three or four times a day, wafhing it down with fnake- 
root tea ; yet not fo as to fweat the patient. If the 
James’ powder is not to be had, (me-eighth of a grain of 
tartar emetic may be ufed in its flead. When the de- billty inn-cafes, let the patient begin and take two 
table-fpoonfuls of the decoftion of bark No. 3. 
every hour or two, putting a little mint water with it, 
and when the patient has taken this fome time, let him 
take the bark in lubftance with wine : one tea-fpoon- 
ful of bark in two table-fpoonfuls of old claret every 
two or three hours : this, or No. 4. fhould be continu- 
ed in till the patient perfectly recovers. 
When the patient has been much harafied for want 
of deep, have his feet bathed at evening’ in tepid water, 
and give him ten or fifteen drops of laudanum. This 
practice may be continued as long as it proves effec- 
tual in procuring fleep. In thofe cafes that proceed 
from exceflire evacuations there is httle hope and fcarce 
any thing fhould be attempted, but the firengthening 
plan. 
The patient fhould carefully fliun all the caufes, and 
«lfe a generous diet with regular varied cxercife of body 
and mind, and be fparing of his flrengtlu 
CHAP. IV. 
PUTRID FEVER. 
THOSE who are of a relaxed habit and gloomy 
difpofition ; thofe who have been debilitated by 
living upon bad victuals, by venery, famine, labour, 
or lofs of reft, &c. eafily take this fever (which is 
caufed by putrid contagion or noxious air) and diffi- 
cultly emerge from it. 
Sjmptoms. Anintenfe confamlng tho’remitting heat, 
particularly inwards ; fmall, frequent, and unequal pulfe 
without ftrength ; throbbing of the arteries that run 
along the neck and temples ; great proftration of 
ftrength, heavinefs without fleep ; and when fleep does 
take place, little or no refrefhmcnt is gained from it * an anxious, dejected, and defponding mind, naufea, 
and vomiting of black bile, pain of the head and tem- 
ples, redneis of the eyes, and pain about their lockets ; 
dulky countenance, nolle in the ears, interrupted breath- 
ing, with lighs and foetid breath ; pains about the fto- 
mach, joints and back, difficulty of lying in one pof- 
ture, trembling, delirium. At fxrff the tongue is whit- 
illi but quickly changes blackilh, whilft the lips, teeth 
and gums are befet with a tough difagreeable mucus ; 
an inextinguiffiable third attends with a bitter mawk- 
ilh tafte, which is communicated to the drink. The 
urine, on the increafe of the diforder, becomes blackilh 
or red with a fediment : The fweats become fcctid, 
the ftools livid, black or bloody, and very foetid : and 
If the fever goes on, a thrulh and ulcers attack the 
mouth and throat : blood is difcharged from different 
parts, a hiccough and other partial convuliions come 
on, which death fcarce ever fails to follow. 
Management. The patient ffiould have frefli air ad- 
mitted by keeping the door of his chamber open, if it 
is not too cold, and by opening his windows, if it is 
fummer time, and the weather clear. Salt petre or 
vinegar Ihould be burned upon the hearth in winter, 
and boughs of trees and flowers thrown about the 
room in fummer. 
His hands, face and feet fliould be walked dally in 
vinegar and water, or wine and water ; he ffiould be 
fhaved frequently, and Ihlfted in bed and body clothes 
as frequently as can be afforded, if it is daily : in line, 
the greateft attention Ihould be paid to cleanlinefs.— 
His food Ihould be moflly of acid vegetables, fuch as 
pleafe his appetite and ftomach heft. His drink Ihould 
be port wine diluted ; this he fliould drink more and 
more of, as he becomes more debilitated, fo as to make 
it his drink and medicine : a quart a-day may be ufed j 
this he ffiould continue in for fome time after he 
has recovered, though in fmaller doles : A frelh air- 
ing every day, after recovery, will be highly ufeful. 
Cure. An emetic of eight grains of ipecacuana and 
one of tartar emetic, or half a table-fpoonful of anti- monlal wine, fhould be given as quick as pofHblc, be- 
fide this, twenty-five or thirty grains of rhubarb, or 
two drachms of cream of tartar, fhould be given in a lit- 
tle jelly, to open the bowrels, after which the decodVion. 
of bark No. 3. fhould be given: two table fpoonfuls 
with a little mint water, every hour ; if the ftomach 
bears this well, and the fymptoms of putrefaction and 
debility iucreafe, the bark in fubftance fliould be ufed : 
a tea-fpoonful in lemon juice and mint water every hour. 
But if the ftomach does not bear the bark, or if the 
heat and fever be confiderable, apply a blifter to the 
breaft, and give a dofe of the faline mixture or one of the 
following pills between the times of taking the bark, 
viz. Camphor beat to an impalpable powder, with com- 
mon fpirits, twenty-four grains, powdered feueca root 
as much ; make them up with fyrup. 
If the ftomach ftill refufes the bark in the above 
ways, try it in triple quantities in clyfters-, or try the 
vinous tin dure, No. 4. The bark is the only chance, 
wc arc therefore to per ft ft in its ufe till a cure is made. 
Three drops of oil of vitriol in a glafs of water every 
hwr, may be tryed where the delicacy of the ftomach, 
or fever, will not admit any preparation of bark; but, 
as it is apt to gripe, it Ihould never be ufed when the 
bowels are affected. 
Clyfters of fait, lugar, and decoftion of bitter herbs 
are to be ufed to keep the bowels regular, or fome of 
the gentle purges mentioned above; but it will be of- 
ten bell to ufe firft one and then the other, according 
to circumftances. In cafe this fever ftiould be of a re- 
mittent form, the remifiions ftiould be greatly attend- 
ed to, and a double quantity of bark given if poftible. 
Sometimes a lax with diftenfion of the belly comes on 
after a while, in fuch a cafe the belly ftiould be foment- 
ed with bitter herbs, boiled and applied warm, and 
one grain of ipecacuana, with five drops of laudanum, 
given every two hours. 
Sometimes fpots break out in this fever, then it 
has been termed the Spotted Fever ; at other times 
there is a yellownefs of the fkin, then it is termed the yellow or Wed India fever. In this lad cafe the 
fymptoms of putridity are In this country more lenient, 
and a confiderable vomiting fometimes hinders the giv- 
ing of medicine ; in this cafe a bliderto the bread and 
the effervefeing faline mixture have been found effeefu- 
al to dop the vomiting ; but in general the treatment is 
the fame as recommended above. 
In the end of thefe fevers, fome phyficians recom- 
mend bliders to roufe the patient: if they are applied, 
the Ikin Ihould not be peeled off as is fometimes done, 
but only opened to difeharge the water, and then dreff- 
cd with Turner’s cerate. But the beginning or fird 
dage is the mod proper for bliders. 
CHAP. V. 
REMITTENT FEVER. 
QAUSES. Expofure to the fun for hours together, or 
. the effe<ds of a cool evening, and other fnnilar cau- 
fes after fatigue or fununer heat. Thus there is no 
difference in the real caufes of this fever and intermit- 
tents, except in the degree and mode of their appli- 
cation. 
Symptoms, Alternating cold and heat, followed by a 
continued heat and a fever : fometimes a delirium comes 
on at the firft attack. 
The patient is didrelTed with third and vomiting, 
ufually of bile; pain of the head, back and joints ; the 
region of the domach fwells, and becomes painful ; the 
tongue is white and mold, and the patient is harrafled 
with fleepleffnefs ; the fkin and eyes are of a yellow 
cad; the pulfe is fometimes a little hard, and feldom 
full; the bowels are fometimes bound, fometimes loofe ; 
with thefe fymptoms the fever ufually proceeds, for 
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 or 8 days, at one of which times, 
after a little fweat it remits, and the patient becomes 
evidently better. After a few hours have elapfed, com- 
monly in the evening, the acceflion comes on, fometimes 
with; at other times without a chill, and fo goes on as 15 
before : In this manner, that is, by acceflions and re- 
milllons, the fsver goes on to its final period. 
A copious fweat or difcharge of blood from the 
nofe, or an nniverfal yellownefs, commonly attend the 
condufion of it. 
After the fever has gone off, a great lightnefs of the 
head-attends, fo that the patient can fcarce walk : rheu- 
matic pains, and dropfical fwellings fornetlmes follow. 
Management. The patient fhould be kept cool and 
airy ; he fhould have plenty of acid drinks, as lemon- 
ade, jelly? tamarind water, and for food, he fhould have 
toafted bread moiflened with a little tea, baked fruits, 
rice, fago, barley, &c. but thefe, though proper, will 
feldom have a place, as the patient can fcarce ever con- 
tain on his ftomach what his little appetite inclines him 
to take: but the toad has often been found to flay, 
when nothing elfe would. 
Cure. If the vomiting be confiderable, a little ca- 
momile tea may be given to promote it a moment or 
two, that a remifTion may be procured to give the fa- 
line mixture No. 2. one table-fpoonful every hour. 
When this fits on the ftomach pretty well, ten drops 
of antimonial wine and a little mint water may be ad- 
ded to each dofe, and the medicine continued : but 
if the vomiting is only flight, the beft way to procure 
a remiflion of the fymptoms will be to give an emetic, 
one tea-fpoonful of antimonial wine, may be given eve- 
ry ten minutes until it operates, or 12 grains of ipe- 
cacuana may be given at once, after which the mix- 
ture may be given in the manner dire&ed with antimo- 
nial wine. 
If the vomiting refills every thing given, or if a re- 
miflion does not take place in a few days, blitters fhould 
be ufcd; on the bread in the firft cafe, on the back of 
the neck in the lalt. Sometimes a bundle of mint dew- 
ed in wine, and applied to the breaft, has been found 
ufeful in checking the vomiting, therefore it may be 
tried before a blifter. 
Goftivenefs fhould be regularly obviated by taking a 
tea-fpoonful or more of cream of tartar, or by uling the common clyflers of falts, fugar and milk occafron- 
aliy. 
When the patient has fuffered for want of deep, af- 
ter giving a clyfter, and bathing the feet in lukewarm 
water for half an hour, ten or fifteen drops of lauda- 
num may be-given in a dofe of the faline mixture No. 
2. and this fhould be done after noon before the in- 
creafe of the fever, for it ufually makes force increafe 
towards night. 
When the fever remits, the decoftion of bark fhould 
be given, two table-fpoonfuls every hour, and if the 
acceffxon is poftponed by it, the bark in fubfiance 
fhould be given, as long as the acceflion is abfent ; In 
fome cafes it will put it off altogether ; then, as well as 
when the fever ceafes, the bark fhould be given in 
large quantities, until the patient recovers his llrength. 
When a lax attends, four grains of rhubarb and 
one of ipecacuana with two drops of laudanum, may 
be given every three or four hours inflead of the faline 
mixture. 
When great fweats attend In the end, it may be ne- 
cefiary to add five drops of elixir of vitriol to each or 
every other dofe of bark; in cafe a headach follows, 
apply a fmall blifter behind the ear, and repeat it if 
neceffary. The patient fhould be very careful in avoid- 
ing the caufes of this fever, or lie will experience a 
xtlapfe. 
C H A P. VI 
INTERMITTENT FEVER (commonly) 
FEVER AND AGUE. 
fAUSES. The relaxing heat of fummer, efpccially 
-when accompanied with moifture and bad air of marfhy 
places, will lb relax the fur face and expofe the extreme 
velfels to the air, that nothing more than the ufual ef- 
fect of common air is needfary to bring on the fever; 
at other times, when the predifpofition is not fo great, 
u cool air will produce it. Symptoms. A langour with yawning and ftretching, 
coldneis, lick ftoraach, rigors and tremors, ufually at- 
tend the commencement; the cold with fliivering con- 
tinues in a very conliderable degree, for one, two, or 
three hours, when it begins to give way, firft tofluflies, 
and then to a continual burning heat and fever, with a 
full pulfe and thirft. Pain of the head and frequently 
of the joints, attended fometimes with a delirium. Af- 
ter this has continued for fome time, a fweat breaks 
out, which becomes profufe, and this is fucceeded by 
an intermifllon of a part, a whole, or two days, ac- 
cording to the type. See page 5. In the intermif- 
fion, the patient is affedled with fcarce any thing but 
debility. The fever returns again at the end of the 
time mentioned, with the fame fymptoms, and fogoes 
on to its end, unlefs it changes its form. Quotidians 
Come on In the morning, and ufually attack the deli- 
cate and irritable. Tertians come on about noon, and 
ufually attack the more rebuff and vigorous. Quar- 
tans come on in the afternoon, and moil commonly at- 
tack the aged and torpid. 
Management. Sometimes the ague fo reduces the 
patient, that it will be neceffary to keep him warm and 
give a little wine ; but this is feldom the cafe. In 
common, nothing is neceffary but to lie down. In 
time of the fever, lemonade and other acid drinks, or 
warm teas may be ufed ; the former will be moil 
grateful. 
In the intermiffions, port wine and water, and a 
ftrengthcning eafy-digefted diet will be proper. 
Cure. In the beginning of the cold ffage, if the 
patient is able to take a puke, he ihould take one; 
three grains of tartar emetic in a gill of water, may 
be taken in the courfe of forty minutes, if required 
to take all: or 15 grains of ipecacuana in a fpoonful 
of water, or a tea-fpoonful of antimonial wine every fif- 
teen minutes ; either of thefe may be ufed : the tartar 
is the mofl adlive and effedlual, but adts too rough 
with fome. When this has been taken, and the fever has come on, a fweating fhould be encouraged by tak- 
ing about three pints of warm drink in the courfe of 
two hours, to which one hundred drops of antimonial 
wine may be added, to make it more effedlual. In 
cafe the patient cannot take a puke, let him take an 
Ander-fon’s pill to open his bowels before the time of 
the ague, and when the fever has come on, and con- 
tinued a while, let him take fifteen drops of laudanum 
and fifteen of antimonial wine, in a cup of warm tea 
every half hour, for three times. 
But when nothing' forbids a puke but the perfon’s 
inclination, he may take juft before the fit, or after it 
is over fome time, the following powder : twenty grains 
of rhubarb, and five of calomel in a little fyrup, and 
when the fever comes on, take the warm drink as above. 
Thefe medicines will prepare for the exhibition of 
bark, Avhich fhould be given immediately after the 
fweat goes off. Any of the preparations may be given, 
but the powder is the beft; it may be given in mint 
water, milk or wfine ; one tea-fpoonfu! every hour, till 
the ague comes on again; then it fhould be laid afide 
till this is over, when it is to be given again ; the pa- 
tient ftiould not ceafc under an ounce and an half, or 
two canoes. If, when this has been taken, the ague 
does not ceafe, another puke ftiould be ufed as before. 
In all cafes the bowels fhould be kept open by Ander- 
fon’s pills or rhubarb. 
Sometimes twenty drops of laudanum given before 
the ague, will put it off, and fometimes giving it juft be- 
fore the patient is cxpedled to fweat, will prepare for 
the bark ; fometimes a quantity of fnake-root tea at the 
fame time will prove effeftual; and in many cafes bit- 
ters, of horehound, dogwood, rue, See. will do as well as 
bark. 
The fever and ague, after it has continued for fome 
time, is apt to affcciate cuftora with its caufes of re- 
currence ; and thus it will frequently continue through 
fuch feafons as it would not have begun in. In inch 
cafes as thefe almoft any alteration in the fyftem will 
leficn or remove it; thus keeping the patient under expe£latlon; fear or joy have often removed it ; and 
thus the impofitions of old women have often been 
effectual, when the faith of her patient has routed his 
expectation and fixed his attention. Though fuch 
things may at times be allowed, yet I would caution 
every prudent perfon to keep his fkin to himtelf, and 
not let ignorant quacks fill up their lack of knowledge 
upon him, with the virulence of an anenical plater, or 
a more dangerous bolus. 
CHAP. VII. 
HECTIC FEVER. 
Violent racks of the conftituticm from any 
M cauie, abforption of matter from ulcers, excei- 
five relaxation,'and delicacy, of any part that is ex- 
pofed to irritation, as the lungs, ilomach, and bowels ; 
all thefec aufes are attended with general debility, and 
particular relaxation of the parts that defend the ten- 
der extreme velfels, from the irritations which a£t about 
them. 
Symptoms• The fever ufually comes cn in the fore- 
noon, fometimcs with confidcrabie chills or coldnefs, 
which laft Ibme time ; this is fucceeded by heat, a 
quick, linall and weak pulfe in general, though ibme- 
tnnes there is ibme hardnefs in it, efpecially in thofe 
who are not much reduced, and early in the complaint j 
this fometimes leffens towards evening, and again in- 
creates at night ; at other times it continues on with- 
out any very obvious change till towards morning, 
when it intermits or greatly remits with a profute 
fweat which lafts a conliderable time : the fweats do 
not appear in the firft ftage, that is, in profufion. A 
headach ufually attends the fever, as alfo a fick fto- 
rnach, both of which grow better in the intermiffion 
or remilGon. 
The tongue is ufually clean in this fever, the belly 
at firJl is often bound, but in the end a lax almoft al- ways attends. The patient waftes away gradually, his 
feet (well, particularly at night, his hair falls off, his 
nails become crooked and thick, his face fliarp, and a 
' general failing taktfe place in every thing but his ex- 
peditions of geitmg better, and his underftanding, 
which ufual* renMii to the laft- 
This is the moftlifual form, but there is feme variety, 
owing to the variety of the parts affeCted, and the 
ftate of the patient. 
Management. The patient fliould have the lighted 
and moll noun filing food given him in fmall quantities 
at a time, and at fuch times chiefly as the fever is ab- 
fent or flight, thus his breakfaft or (dinner at ten 
o’clock, fliould contain mold of what he fliould eat. 
Milk is very proper when the ftomach will receive it: 
fometimes it may be moll agreeable when diluted with 
water and fweetened, at other times it may fit better 
when boiled. Cuflards, light puddings, chicken wa- 
ter and broth, beef tea, rye mufti, corn mufti, with 
the common vegetables of the grain kind, are moftly 
proper. Weak wine and water in the abfence of fe- 
ver; barley water and fage tea at other times, will be 
proper for drink. The patient fh«uld be kept clean, 
and when his ftrength admits, he ftiould be aired in a 
chair, and at all times have accefs to pure air. 
Cure. In many cafes it may be necdlefs to attempt 
any thing but a removal of the caufe, when the fever 
will quickly ceafe: but in general both the one and the 
other are to be combated. For treating the caufes 1 re- 
fer to the places where they are treated of (though feme 
of them could not have a,.place in this book, as they 
helonp;to forgery) for the treatment of the fever alone, 
the debility ftiould be removed and the fever in- 
terrupted: for the firft, when nothing forbids, bitters 
and bark are neceffary ; alfo elixir of vitriol, which 
may be given to flxty drops a day. Thefe are to be ta- 
ken whilft the fever is oft', or when it has greatly re- 
mitted, juft before the time when the return is expect- 
ed, and again after it has commenced, one of the fol- 
lowing powders may be given ; ipecacuaua two grains, •magnefia one tea-fpoonful, mix them and give it in' a 
little camomile tea. When a lax comes on, there is 
little hope, but the following may be given ; col um- 
bo root one drachm, pour one gill of 
it, and in a quarter of an hour drain it oft': ta this 
twenty drops of laudanum may beladdetl; this may 
be ufed in the courfe of eight hours,'land repeated.— 
Rice will now be the bed food. 
CHAP. VIII 
INFLAMMATION OF THE EYE 
Tliefe a& either externally or internally, 
though frequently both take place in producing 
the affection. 
The externals are, violence, dud, cold winds, 
changes from heat to cold, viewing minute obje&s or 
bright bodies ; metallic fumes, great heat, especially 
•when accompanied with Inoifture ; night reading, &c. 
The internal caufes are, checked excretions, as the 
menfes, Stc. repulfion of fome eruptive diforders, long 
continued ulcers dried up, immoderate ufe of fpiritu- 
ous liquors and fpices, fevers, mealies, fcrophula, ve- 
nereal difeafe, See. See. 
Symptoms. Rednefs, fwelling, ftiffnefs and pain of 
the ball of the eye or the lids ; both from an inflam- 
mation of the veflels that pafs over and through them,' 
being filled with too much blood, or with red blood, 
iudead of the fine white parts of it. 
When the inflammation is confiderable, a fever at- 
tends ; and in fuch cafes there is danger of the effefts, 
uillefs fpeedily prevented by curing the difeafe. 
Management. In no cafe a cure can be hoped for, 
unlefs the caufes be removed, which in many cafes 
will he followed with an- immediate cure. If any bo- 
dy be lodged in the eye, it is to be ■ extracted, and ifl 
another difeafe be the caufe, it mull be cured by the 
means directed for fuch difeafe. In every cafe the 
patient fhould avoid exercifmg his eyes any more than what there is necefTity for :—He fhould confine him- 
felf to a dark room, or apply a fold of green lilk over 
his eyes, and ule an umbrella in the fummer. His 
food fhould be light and moflly vegetable, in all cafes 
without pepper or milliard. His drink fhould be 
cooling and acid, hvithoKt any mixture of fpirit. His 
room fhould be cooled with fprinkling in the fummer 
time. 
Cure. If there be a fever, or if the inflammation be 
confiderable, and the patient able to bear bleeding, 
he fhould lofe half a pint of blood, which may be re- 
peated if neceflary ; this fhould be followed by a dele 
of falts, or if the patient’s cafe does not? require bleed- 
ing', or other circumftances prevent it, the falts then 
fhould be the firll thing. All this is to be done after 
the caufe is removed, and thus in many cafes where 
removing the caufe will be the chief means of cure, 
they will have no place ; as where the inflammation pro- 
ceeds from the venereal difeafe, fcrophula, &c. One 
of the fever powders, No. 1. when the fever continues, 
or the inflammation remains obftinate, given every 
four hours, will be ferviceable. The belly fhould be 
kept regular by cream of tartar or fmall dofes of falts, 
or of jalap and nitre ; of jalap fifteen grains, nitre 
twenty-five, mix them.—For external applications, a 
blifler behind the ears is mod effectual, and to the 
eyes the following: fugar of lead twelve grains to 
half a pint of water, or as much white vitriol to an 
equal quantity of water ; to either of which, when 
the inflammation has continued, and the former re- 
medies have been tiled, may be added a table-fpoonful 
of brandy, 
Thefe external applications (the bllfter excepted) 
will be proper in every cafe and time. The weak- 
nefs that follows requires that the patient ufe either 
a general or topical cold bath, and avoid much ap- 
plication and expofure. CHAP. IX. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE BRAIN. 
THIS Is either a fymptomatlc diforder, as ■when 
it follows in the courfe of a primary affeclion ; 
or it is original, being primary itfelf—of this alone I 
Ihall treat, that requiring the treatment of the con- 
comitant diforder. 
It ufually attacks in the heat of fummer thofe of 
an irafcible dilpofition, who are in their youth and 
given to fludy. 
Causes. Drunkennefs, watching, long expofure to 
the fun, anger, exceflive cogitation, grief, care, ve- 
hement defires, external violence, certain poifons, and 
fuppreliions of paticular difeharges ; as the piles, the 
difeharge after parturition. 
Symptoms. It begins with rigors, which are follow- 
ed by heat, pain and throbbing of the head, difiurb- 
ed deep, noife within the head and ears, inflammation 
and pain in the eyes, with inability to bear the light 
and noife, and a bloated countenance—the pulfe is 
low, opprefied and quick, often -weak as well as low, 
though fometimes it is hard: the patient continues 
without any deep for a long time, fometimes til! the 
eighth day ; the arteries along the neck perceptibly 
throb, and blood fometimes limes by drops from the 
nofe ; great debility, anxiety and fighing attend, yet 
the patient is fubjedl to anger, fierce delirium, flart- 
ings and convullions. When the diforder has cealed, 
a fwimming and heavinefs of the head, weak eyes, 
and great delicacy of hearing attend for a confiderable 
time. 
Management. The patient fhould be confined in an 
airy, darkened, nlent and cool room; his bed fhould 
be hard, and his head fomewhat raifed upon it. He 
fhould have plenty of acid, cool drinks, without any 
mixture of ipim, His food fhould be of panada. barley, jelley. See. The caufes of the difordcr mull be 
carefully removed. 
Cure. The patient fliould be bled pretty freely, 
and this may be repeated again and again in iefs 
quantities, during the firft 48 hours ; provided the 
fymptoms demand it, and the patient be able to bear 
it :—the pulfe will ufually be the beft guide ; for if 
this does not link very low, there will be no danger 
from bleeding, A dole «f falts fliould be given after 
the firft bleeding, and it may be neceftary to repeat 
this the next day. Glyfters may be given daily, fuch 
as No. 5. one of the fever powders, No. 1. may be 
given every three hours, beginning after the operation 
of the firft dofe of the falts. The patient’s head 
fhould be fhaved and walked with cold vinegar and 
water. If the delirium runs on after the above eva- 
cuations, a large blifter fliould be applied to the crown 
of the head, and when this has drawn, others, if ne- 
ceflary, may be applied to the ankles. 
When the patient has fullered fome time for want of 
fleep, the feet fhould be bathed half an hour or twice 
as long, in water moderately warm, and if this is inef- 
fectual, let him have ten or fifteen drops of laudanum, 
or a tea-fpoonful of paregoric at night, with this care, 
that if it makes him worie, to cllfcontinue it ; but if 
it has the defired effeCt, to perftft giving it every night, 
if required. 
A nourishing diet and the ufe of wine fliould be 
gradually entered into, after the fymptoms of danger 
are perfectly gone, in order to prevent the fucceeding 
fymptoms of debility. 
Great care will be neceffary to avoid the caufes of 
this diforder, as flighter ones may caufe a relapfe or 
repetition. CHAP. X, 
QUINCY 
The application of cold to the neck or 
*** throat, a dream of coo! air applied with force to the 
very part; as in riding and running: thefe caufes pro- 
duce their cffeCl more certairdy when preceded by heat. 
Exerciling the parts that fuffer, as in Tinging, and 
loud (peaking ; acrids, mechanic bodies, fupprefied 
evacuations, or artificial evacuations, that have been 
long ufed, negledled. 
Symptoms. This complaint ufually appears with red- 
nefs and fwelling of the glands (ituated on each Tide of 
the palate ; one is ufually moll fwclled in the beginning, 
and as this declines, the other incrcafes; a pain that 
(hoots towards the ear attends, with feverifh fymptoms, 
and a (Irong, full, quick pulfe : The patient feels a 
difagreeable clamminefs, and the tumour is ufually 
tipped with whitifh mucus. 
In feme cafes the external parts are much fwelled ; 
fometlmes fcarce any tumour is to be perceived by look- 
dug into the mouth, and at the fame time the difficul- 
ty of fwallowing and pain maybe veij confiderable ; 
In the word cafes the breathing becomes very diffi- 
cult, the tumours cffifnig up the paffage almod entire- 
ly ; then the patient fits with his mouth open, his 
drink regurgitates through his nodrils, and he is ready 
to (Irangle every minute for want of a free refpiratibn, 
which is totally impeded when the patient dies. 
What is ufually termed a fore-throat, is a leffer de- 
gree of this fame affedlion, therefore the fame reme- 
dies may be ufed, omitting the mod general and pow- 
erful one of bleeding. 
Alanagement. The patient' (liould be kept neither 
hot nor cold : he (hould have a light vegetable diet of 
a fluid preparation ; his drink (liould be of the acid 
kind, and not cold or warm, but jud aired. Hi? head 
ihould be kept up in bed, or he may fit up altogether ; fpeaking, and every exertion of the throat fhould be 
avoided, and the caufes fhould be removed. 
Cure. The patient fhould be bled pretty freely, and 
this may be repeated the next day if neceffary; he fhould 
take adofe of falts as foon as poflible, and then a blif- 
ter fhould be applied under the throat, of a flim form, 
fo that it may reach from ear to ear : the bowels fhould 
be regularly kept open : before the tumour has become 
very confiderable, fifteen grains of ipecacuana will be 
of great fervice. In fuch patients as do not allow of 
bleeding, this may be the firfl medicine. 
Warm water and vinegar fhould be infpired from a 
proper machine for the purpofe, or from a funnel put 
over a wooden bowl of water and vinegar ; the mouth 
fhould be frequently gargled with aftringent wafhes, as 
fage tea and vinegar; or alum-vinegar and honey, or 
tlecodlion of oak bark and fait petre. Scarifications 
with a lancet are necellary where there is danger of 
choaking ; and likewife to let out the matter, when 
the tumours have fuppurated. 
If the patient is liable to frequent returns of this af- 
fedfion, I would advife him to ufe the cold bath daily ; 
at any rate to waih his neck, and habituate himfelf to 
wear nothing but a very thin hock or ribband, inftead 
of a large neckcloth. 
CHAP. XI, 
PUTRID SORE THROAT. 
THIS diforder has for its cause, fpecific contagion, 
and therefore attacks all ages and conftitutions. 
Symptoms. It begins with chills, which are follow- 
ed by an intenfe and burning heat, a fwimming and 
pain of the head, a troublefome fenfation in the throat, 
ficknefs and vomiting, loofenefs, inflamed and watery 
eyes, tumid and flufhed face, with a lliffnefs of the 
neck, a fmall, frequent, and irregular pulfe, foetid 
breath, and a difagreeablc tafte. Very foon, white 
fpots appear on th« glands each fide of the palate, and thefe with the palate appear red, fwoln and glofly-: 
thefe fpots fpread and unite, covering almoft all of the 
mouth with thick doughs, which falling off, leave ul- 
cers in their places; the rednefs and tumour are fome- 
times extended to the internal parts of the nofe. 
On the fecond day, or later, efflorefcences appear 
on the fkin, which are fometimes in fuch fmall emi- 
nences as fcarcely to be ieen, but more ufually fpread 
in red patches, fo as to cover the whole fkin ; *egin- 
ning firfl about the face and neck; and fo extending to 
the extremities, which feel lliff andfwelled; this ulu- 
ally continues about four days, and then goes off with 
a peeling of the fkin. The glands about the neck are 
fometimes dwelled to an alarming deglee. As the 
complaint advances, difeharges of blood from different 
parts are frequent, and fometimes a gangrene takes 
place at the beginning of the windpipe or of the cefo- 
phagus, the channel which leads to the ftomach. 
The patient’s voice is hoarfe and flat, though his 
fwallowing is not ufually much impeded ; with thefe 
fymptoms it runs on from two to feven or more days, 
increafmg every evening. 
Management. For food, drinks, aad general manage- 
ment, the fame may be ufed as dire (fled for the putrid 
fever, only a lefs degree of cold will be requifite in this. 
Cure. Ten grains of ipecacuana fhouid be given 
early in the complaint: three grains of calomel in a 
little honey, may be given once or twice the evenings 
after the puke, and if the firft dofe produces more 
than two flools, it Ihould be checked by giving ten 
drops of laudanum. This medicine wrill often prove 
very efficacious, without producing any difeharge. 
Some of the preparations of bark, or the powder, 
which is befl, fhouid be given every two hours after 
the puke, and to the end of the complaint. The 
throiit fhouid be frequently wafhed with the following : 
one hundred drops of elixir of vitriol or twenty drops 
of oil of vitriol to Haifa pint of water, and one fnoon- 
ful of honey. Spring water coloured with indigo has 
been found uleful as a gargle. Port .wine fhouid be given to a pint, or quart a day, with the bark. If the 
tumour in the infide of the throat be confiderable, a 
blifter fnould be laid on the outftde. 
For the fwelling of the legs, which fometimes follows, 
the patient may ufe eight drops of elixir of vitriol with 
each dofe of bark, four times a day. 
CHAP. XII. 
CROUP OR HIVES. 
£JAUSES. Foregoing disorders, as the meafles and 
the hooping cough: cold mold air from the water. 
It moil frequently happens to fuch as live in feaport 
towns ; and to children, from the time they are wean* 
ed to their twelfth year. 
Symptoms. It fometimes comes on with the fymp- 
toms of a common cold only ; but the particular fymp- 
toms are a hoarfenefs, and a ringing found of the voice, 
at the fame time there is an uneafinefs. or pain in the 
throat, and a whizzing noife in breathing, as if the 
paifage was too much draitened for the air ; the patient 
has a cough that is either dry, or accompanied with 
the difcharge of flakes of phlegm, like a membrane ; 
the pulfe is quickened, and an uneafy fenfe of heat at- 
tends. By looking into the throat, a rednefs and flakes 
of phlegm like thole difeharged, may fometimes be 
perceived. It has happened that the patient has been 
taken oft' without i'carce any complaining, in three, 
four, or five days. 
Management. The patient fliould not be kept cold, 
nor difagreeably warm, he ftiould have a fpare thin ve- 
getable diet, with light acid, or bitter drinks, as teas 
of various herbs. In time of coughing, he (hould be 
ralfed and affifted, to keep him from ftrangling. 
Cure, The patient fliould take a puke as quick as 
poflible. (If he is twelve years old, ten grains of ipe- 
cacuana, and half a grain of tartar emetic will not 
be too much, for there is a great degree of infenlibi- 
lity in the llomach in this complaint j if hs is only four years old, let him have half as much, or one tea- 
fpoouful of antimonial wine, to be repeated, every 
quarter of an hour, till it operates.) After taking the 
puke, he Ihoultl take four grains (if twelve years) of 
calomel, and ten of jalap, the evening of the fame 
day; after this for three or four days, he fhould take 
one day the puke, and the next the purge, j after the 
fi-rft puke and purge, a blifter fhould be laid on the 
back of the heck. Throughout the. complaint, the 
fleams of warm vinegar, or of water in which there is 
a large lump of lime flacking (which is fuppofed to be 
a iblvent) may be drawn into the throat; warm teas, 
and foaking the feet, may bo ui'ed to reflore the per- 
fpiration to the furface. 1 
CHAP. XIII. 
THE MUMPS. 
CONTAGION is the caufe of this complaint. , 
Symptoms. It makes its appearance with the 
ufual febrile lymptoms, of chills fucceeding heat, 
and quickened pulfe ; this is Ihortly followed by a 
fwelling, at the corner of the lower jaw, of a movea- 
ble glandular nature ; in a little- time it diffufes itfelf 
over the whole neck ; -both Tides are affedt- 
ed. It continues increafmg till about , the fourth day, 
and then declines with the fever. As the fwelling re- 
cedes, Tome tumour apt to take place in the teller 
of males, and in the brealls of women. Sometimes 
when this has not taken place, or when it has been re- 
pelled by imprudent applications, the fever has conti- 
nued, or increafed with delirium. 
Management. The patient Ihould be kept upon a low 
vegetable diet, and not.expofe himfelf to cold. The 
above in general will be fufficient, but when the cir- 
cumftance mentioned takes place, it will be necelfary 
to direil fomething more than the above for a 
Cure. We fliould apply warm hewed bitter herbs, 
or warm bread and milk poultices, to the parts ; audit the fever and delii ium be confiderable, the patient ffiould 
be bled if he be able to bear bleeding ; otherwife a puke 
ffiould be the only evacuant, viz. fifteen grains of 
ipecacuana, more or lefs, according to the patient’s 
age. Befides this or thefe, it may be neceflary to ap- 
ply a bfifter to the back of the neck. In {lighter cafes 
the puke and fomentations will be fufficient. In all 
cafes, cofUvenefs fhould be prevented by clyfters, caf- 
tor oil, or falls. 
CHAP. XIV. 
PLEURISY OR INFLAMMATION OF THE 
INTERNAL PARTS OF THE BREAST. 
THE end of winter, fprlng and beginning of fum- 
mer are the rtfual times that this difeafe is pre- 
valent ; all ages and mod conftitutions are liable to it, 
but the phlethoric, and thofe of a ruftic conftitutiort, 
who have feen twenty years, and not exceeded fixty, 
are mod liable. 
Causes. Cold and heat applied alternate!}’, or un- 
equally, draining or injuring of the parts, 8cc. 
Sjmptvms. It ufually begins with chills, which are 
followed by heat, quick, ftrong, and full pulfe, head- 
ach, difficult breathing, dry cough at the beginning, 
though fometimes it begins moift : towards the end, 
or after it has continued, it is always moift, and fome- 
times a very conftderable quantity of yellow mucus 
is difeharged ; this is not unfrequently ftreaked with 
blood. Mod frequently, a pungent pain attacks the 
fide, about the middle of the fixth or feventh.rib, but 
if the pain fhould attack any other part of the cheft, and 
fttould not be fo violent, yet accompanied with the 
other fymptoms, particularly the full, ftrong and quick 
pnlfe, we are to confider the complaint as the fame. 
Management, This ffiould be identically the fame 
■with what is direfted in Chap. II. only with addition of 
mucilaginous and fyrup drinks to allay the cough ; Us of flaltfeed, and mallow tea with honey ; a little lemon 
juice will make it very agreeable. 
Cure. From half to two thirds of a pint, or more of 
blood, Ihould be taken away on the firft appearance, and 
if the fymptoms continue, it may be repeated in eight 
hours. After the firft bleeding, a dofe of falts Ihould be 
given, and fmall dofesofthe fame, or common clyfters 
may be given regularly to prevent coftivenefs. Immedi- 
ately after the patient’s firft bleeding, a blifter Ihould 
be applied as near as polfible to the pained part, and 
one of the fever powders, No. 1. given every hour, be- 
ginning after the operation of the falts is over. If after 
the blifter has drawn, the pulfe continues up, and the 
pain has not confiderably abated, the fecond bleeding 
Ihould be immediately made, and if in half an hour af- 
ter that, the pain does not give way, a fecond blifter 
Ihould be applied on a frefh part, or on the oppofite fide. 
The powders Ihould be continued every two hours. 
But in general, one bleeding, a blifter, the powders, and 
keeping an open belly, will be fufficient. Nothing but 
a relaxation of the pain and fever, Ihould induce the 
patient to omit any of the above remedies, for life and 
death are pretty certainly fixed to the narrow compafs 
of a few days. If the pulfe is ftrong, and bleeding has 
been omitted as long as fix or feven days, it would be 
then better done than let alone ; but if the pulfe flags, 
and the patient has had a frequent fhivering about the 
laft days, it will then be better, if not the very fafety of 
the patient, to forbear. At fuch a time a blifter might 
be applied without any injury, but if a fuppuration has 
taken place, it will be of no fervice ; however thole who 
are not proper judges, had better make the application, 
left there might have been an infufficient inflammation 
for to fuppurate in that time ; and with this the pati- 
ent may ufe what will be proper in the laft cafe of every 
pleurify when the cough is troublefome : a tea-fpoonful 
of pareg«ific in a little flaxfeed, or other tea, onto in 
four or five hours. In the latter ftages, it may be ne- 
ceffary to fupport the patient’s ftrength with deco&icns 
of bark, and a light nourilhing diet. Seneca, fnake root tea, the pleurify root, or common 
fait petre taken to one fourth of an ounce a day, in 
whey or gruel, may fometimes alone, and often after a 
bleeding, remove a pleurify ; but they fliould only be 
tried, when the perfon cannot procure the above pre* 
fcribed remedies. 
CHAP. X\ 
BASTARD OR SPURIOUS PLEURISY, 
THIS ufually attacks the aged, thofe of a phleg- 
matic full habit, who have' injured their conftitu- 
tions by excefs of drinking, particularly, and are liable 
to the viciffitudes of the weather, from being much 
expo fed. 
Cause. The long application of cold fuddenly 
fucceeded by heat, and heating drinks ; this, with the 
predifpofitign laid down above, is the chief, if not the 
only caufe. 
Symptoms. It makes its appearance with chills and 
flulhes, which are followed by a flight fever, with a foft, 
not very frequent, pulfe. The heat of the pat ent is 
not ufually much increafed; a pain affe&s the fide, or 
bread, which Is not very pungent, but rather dull and 
extending ; a violent pain in the head, Tick flomach 
and fomctimcs vomiting, are more or lefs prefent. 
From the beginning, it is common for a cough, ftrait- 
cned breathing, and fpitting of tough mucus to attend. 
An eryfipelatous rednefs often appears on the cheeks, 
and a loofcnefs attends the advanced flage of the dif- 
eafe. The patient is apt to be heavy and drowfy ; 
thus though there be a pain in the fide, aiid a fever, 
it is eafily didinguilhed from a true inflammatory af- 
fection of the bread. 
Management. The patient fhovild be kept tolerably 
warm, his diet fhould be light and nour idling, and In 
the beginning, if the feverlfh fymptoms are not confi- 
derabl'e, he may have weak wine and water for his 
drink ; in the end it will always be proper, for the patient frequently becomes fainty, and is not able to 
take any thing befides. Lemonade maybe ufed, when 
wine and water cannot be given for the fever; and 
when lemons cannot be got, vinegar and water, or 
cyder and water. 
Cure. Bleeding though it may fometimes be pro- 
per, as when the patient is of a more robuft habit, 
and better confutation than what is deferibed above, 
and when he has been accuftomed to bleeding, and 
withal the pulfe and pain are not low, yet, it fhould 
be tiled fparingly and cautioufly, otherwise, in ninety 
cafes out of one hundred, it would be injurious. In 
the beginning it will be proper to give ten or twelve 
grains of ipecacuana ; or a tea-fpoonful of antimonial 
wine, every fifteen minutes until it operates ; a blifter 
may be put on at the fame time, as near as poffible to 
the pain; the puke may be repeated once or twice if 
neceflary, and fometimes it will be neceflary to lay on 
another blifter clofe by the former ; twenty grains of 
jalap, or thirty grains of rheubarb, or a table-fpoonful 
of caftor oil, or four or five grains of calomel, may 
be ufed to remove any coftivenefs that is prefent: this 
Ihould be attended to throughout. 
For the cough,-two drachms of gum ammoniac, dif- 
folvcd by trituration in a mortar, with half a pint of 
water, may be given ; one table-fpoonful every hour : 
or an ounce of fyrlip (commonly called oxyme) of 
fquills, in as much water, may be given in the fame 
way. 
Seneca fnake root or pleurify root tea may be ufed, 
if they cannot be procured; to either of thefe me- 
dicines at. night a dozen drops of laudanum may be 
added, in order to allay the cough, that the patient 
may reft; and if the cough is very frequent in the 
day, a few drops may be taken every now and then. 
Towards the end when the patient grows weak, h«- 
fhould ufe about lixty drops of elixir of- vitriol a-day, 
and ufe a deception of bark or feme good bitters. Great care will be requifite to prevent the return of 
this diforder, when the weather is favourable to pro- 
duce it. 
CHAP. XVI. 
SPASMODIC STITCH, or INTERCOSTAL 
. . RHEUMATISM. 
THIS complaint is prevalent when the changes of 
weather are frequent, as in the fpring and fall. 
It ufually attacks the young, thofe under forty years, 
thofe who are of a delicate, effeminate conftitution, 
rather than thofe of a broken date of health. 
Expofure to cold, more particularly after heat and 
damp cloudy weather are the caufes. 
Symptoms. It begins with a lancinating pain, mod 
frequently about the ribs of one fide; this remits a 
while, and then returns again, fo as almoft to make 
the patient fcream out. After a while it becomes 
fixed, and does not abate, though it is apt to extend, 
and even to change its place, fo that the mufcles of the 
bread are frequently attacked, and there are pains in 
other parts that point out a rheumatic affedtion : with 
the above a fever, fometimes pretty fmart, at other times 
lefs, attends. In mod cafes the pulfe is not drong, 
but eadly dopped by prefling it, to what it is in true 
pleurify. Frequently a cough attends, which is apt 
to increafe towards the end of the other fymptoms, at 
which time it, is accompanied with fpittihg 'of yellow, 
tough mucus; fome degree of codivenefs ufually at- 
tends, and mod of the fymptoms are vaorfe at might. 
The breathing is not in general affe&ed fo m\ich as 
in pleurify, little or no cough attends ; the head is ufu- 
ally much affected with pain, and as the.pain, of the 
fide declines, the knees or back are fometimes attacked, 
if not before. 
Management. The patient fhould be kept on a ve- 
getable, moderate diet. 
His drink may be warm herb teas. Cure. If the patient be pretty full of blood, and 
his pull'e tolerably flrong, it will then be prudent and 
ufeful to take away half a.pint or more of blood. A 
blifler fhould be laid over the part, a dofe of caflor 
oil, or of fifteen grains of jalap and as much cream of 
tartar, fhould be given to open his bowels : if the pain 
continues, fome proper fwcating medicine fhould he 
given, as four grains of camphor beat up with honey 
into a bolus, to which two grains of ipecacuana may 
be added, this much fhould be taken every three or four 
hours, wafhing it down with feneca fnake root tea, 
or warm baum tea : or in tjie place of thel’e a tea-fpoon- 
ful of paregoric and twenty drops of antimonial wdne, 
may be taken every three hours ; ufing plenty of warm 
tea in the intervals. This lafl mixture will be proper 
for the cough, taken in the fame quantity and times. 
CHAP. XVII 
INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH. 
£*AUSES. External violence, high feafoned food, 
acrid medicine- or poifons ; hard bodies fwallowed, 
as of glafs or (lone; cold drink, when the body is heat- 
ed ; diftenfion from an over quantity of food that is of 
difficult digeftion ; inflammations of the adjacent parts 
extending to the ftomach ; beiidesthefe caufcs, atrauf- 
lation of affection in other diibrders are caufes ; as in 
the gout, fmall pox, mealies, St. Anthony’s fire; but 
thefe require a treatment connected with the primary 
affe&ion which cannot be treated of here. 
Symptoms. A violent, pungent, and fometiraes 
throbbing pain at the pit of the ftomach, with burn- 
ing- and painful vomiting ; a, hiccough, anxiety and 
difficult breathing ; great weaknefs ; after- taking any 
thing into the ftomach, the pain irlcreafes, and it is 
difcharged by vomiting ; the pulfe is commonly fmall, 
hard and quick. management. The patient fhould he kept from 
fwallowing any thing but mild drinks, as barley wa- 
ter, milk and water, &x. lie fhould keep himfelf as 
ftill as poflible in a dark room. 
Cure. If any thing that is acrid, or that may in- 
jure the ftomach mechanically, has been taken in, it 
fhould be evacuated as quick as poflible, by taking 
plenty of warm water, and applying a feather to the 
throat, to induce immediate Vomiting ; but if the vo- 
miting is already confiderable, it fhould not be folicit- 
cd after vomiting; if the caufe be fome acrid, it fhould 
be diluted with mucilaginous drinks, as gum arabic 
diffolved in water; or oils may be given, as fweet oil 
or almond oil ; at the fame time it fhould be counter- 
acted by a proper medicine. Thus if it be vitriol, or 
(pint of fait, or aqua fortisj let the patient take a table- 
fpoonful of fait of tartar, or if he can get none of that, 
let him get a piece of chalk and eat it. If it be arfe- 
nic, two tea-fpocnfuls of precipitate fulphur may be 
fwallosred. After this, or where thefe have not been 
required from the nature of the caufe, the patient 
fhould lofe a pint of blood, and in cafe the pain coiv 
tinuss, and the pullc does not fink and intermit, half 
as much more may be taken away in eight hours 
following ; a blifter after the firft bleeding- Ihould be 
applied to the left fide, and clyffers of oil, fugar, 
milk, and a little fait petre, fhould be InjeCfed every 
three hours : four grains of fugar of lead in a little 
water may be given every two hours the firfl day : 
nothing but the medicine mentioned fhould be applied 
by the mouth. 
C H A P. XVIII. 
INFLAMMATION OF THE INTESTINES. 
£AUSES. Befides mofl of the caufes of the preced- 
ing diieafe, may be added, cold applied to the bel- 
ly: long and violent cholic, and hernia, commonly 
termed a rupture. Symptoms. A fixed pain, fometimes fpreading over 
the belly, at other times fixed about the navel, fever, 
codivenefs and vomiting. 
Management. The patient fliould have light, liquid 
preparations of vegetables for food, and his drink 
fliould be jelly and water, or apple-water, or lemon- 
ade, or molaffes and water with a little vinegar : thefe, 
or any of them, may be taken plentifully. 
Cure. He fliould be bled as quick as poffible ; the 
quantity fliould be pretty large, proportioning it to 
the habit of the patient ; this may be repeated in eight 
hours, if the fymptoms demand it, and the pulfe al- 
low it. After the -fird bleeding, a Wider fhould be ap- 
plied over the pain, and a clyfter of oil, molaffes, milk, 
■and Glauber falts injected ; this maybe repeated every 
three or four hours with fmall quantities of falts after 
the flrd time ; -eight grains of nitre, if it does not ex- 
cite vomiting, may be given in a little drink every 
hour. If the inflammation fhould fuppurate and dif- 
charge matter downwards, nothing fhould be ufed but 
the m’rldeft, nouridiing fpoon-diet of broths, See. 
CHAP. XIX 
ACUTE INFLAMMATION OF THE LIVER. 
£AUSES. External violence, from bruifes and con- 
tusions, efpecially fuch as have occafioned a frac- 
ture of the Skull at the fame time ; violent paflions, ex- 
ceflive fummer heats, too much exercife, cold applied 
externally or internally. 
Symptoms, A pungent pain of the right fide, (hoot- 
ing- up to the Shoulder, a cough for the moil part dry, 
tendon of the right fide over the liver, hard dry gums, 
vomiting, wcaknefs, difficulty of breathing, watching, 
coftivenefs, hiccough, and a hard, full, quickened pulfe. 
Sometimes there is a difficulty of lying- on the left 
fide ; Sometimes the eyes, tongue, and urine are tinged 
with bile. Management. The caufes fliould be attended to, and 
removed as far as poflible. Light vegetable food, and 
acid drinks fhonld compofe the patient’s diet. He 
fliould be kept cool and (till. 
Cure. The patient fliould be bled early in the dif- 
order, and this may be repeated if neceffary ; a dofe of 
falts fliould be given to open his bowels, after which 
cream of tartar may be ufed conftantly for the fame 
purpofe, or clyfters may be ufed of No. 5. A bllfter 
fliould be applied over the pained part, after the firft 
bleeding', and after that the parts around may be fre- 
quently fomented with warm flowed herbs, as mallows, 
horehound, wormwood, See. If after the ufe of thefe, 
the fever continues with the pain, the following pills 
may be ufed until they affed. the patient’s mouth: 
Calomel twenty-four grains, tartar emetic two grains, 
make them up with fyrup into twelve pills : one of 
which may be taken morning, noon, and night. 
From the beginning, if the fever be confiderable, 
one of the fever powders, No. 1. fliould be given eve- 
ry two hours, except when other medicine is to be 
given. 
CHAP. XX 
OBSTRUCTION OF THE LIVER 
£AUSES. Intermitting and remitting fevers, ex- 
pofure to frequent colds, fitting up of nights, 
obefity, See. 
Symptoms. A dull, heavy fenfation and tenfion of 
the right fide, little or no fever, difficulty of lying up- 
on the left fide, yellow eyes and coftivenefs. 
Management. Avoid or remove the caufes, live upon 
a fimple vegetable diet, and watery drinks. 
Cure. If the patient be pretty full, or if accuftomed 
to bleeding, blood-letting may be once performed : ten 
grains of ipecacuana may be given at the diflance of 
two or three days, for feveral times. The bowels fhould be kept open by the pills, No. 
6. taken regularly fo as to anfwer the purpofe : the 
fide fhould be frequently fomented with a warm decoc- 
tion of bitter herbs, and one of the calomel pills, in 
ch. xix. given every fecond night, till they afle£t the 
gums. 
C H A P. XXL 
INFLAMMATION OF THE KIDNEYS. 
S~*AUSES. External contufions, violent, long-con- 
tinued riding, drains of the back, Spanifh flies ta- 
ken inwardly, or applied outwardly on a blifter, flones 
that have formed in the cavities of the kidney, palling 
out. 
Symptoms. Fever, pain about the part, which may- 
be diflinguifhed from rheumatifm, by the former not 
being much increafed by motion ; a retradlion of the 
teflicle on the fame fide, a numbnefs of the thigh and 
leg on the fame fide, vomiting, colic pains, coftlve- 
nefs, rednefs of the mine, and fmall difcharges of it 
at a time. 
Management. The patient fhould have plenty of 
light, mucilaginous drinks, as flaxfeed tea, mallow- 
tea, and gum arabic diffolved in water; thefe fhould 
be drank warm, his food fhould be broths and ve- 
getables. 
Cure. The patient fhould be bled once or twice, 
proportioning the quantity to the age, habit, and cuf- 
tom of the patient. The fmall of the back fhould be 
frequently fomented with warm decodtions of bitter 
herbs. His bowels fhould be opened with a dofe of 
caftor oil; and emollient clyflers of oil, molafTes, and 
milk fhould be injedted, every two or three hours ; 
belides thefe, fixty grains of Glauber falts in lemon- juke may be given, every two hours, throughout the 
continuance of the heat and fever. 
C H A P. XXII. 
ACUTE RHEUMATISM. 
THIS attacks at all feafons, but rarely at any 
other time than the fpring and fall, when the 
viciffitudcs of weather are great. 
Causes. Cold applied to the body, when unufually 
warm', or cold applied partially to the body. 
Symptoms. A pain afl’efts fome of the joints, and 
fometimes the mufcles, fo as to extend from one joint 
to another. Sometimes aliuoft every joint in the body 
is affe&ed, and then the complaint comes on xs ith 
thills, and fever, with a ftrong pulfe, for the molt 
part full. In fome cafes, the fever precedes the pains, 
fit other times, it is the contrary; the joints affected 
become red and fwelled ; the fever and pains ufually 
lucreafe at night. If the general affection continues 
long, the patient’s fenfes become fomewhat impaired 
for a while. 
Management, The patient ihouid be kept cool, ex- 
cept when under the operation of fweating medicine, 
then he fliould lie between blankets; he Ihouid be 
kept frem all but light vegetable food, and ceol acid 
or warm herb drinks, which may be given plentifully; 
and when the complaint has gone off, he ihouid wear 
flannels till warm weather returns, and then ufe bathing. 
Cure. The patient Ihouid be inftantly bled, as fre- 
ly as. his habit and age will bear, and his complaint 
demands; this may be repeated in fmaller quantities, 
for pace or twice in the courfe of four days, if necef- 
fary. After the firft bleeding, a dofe of falts fliould be 
given, and when that has done operating, one of the 
powders, No. 1. ihouid be given, every two hours. 
If this does not anfwer, let him have twelve grains of 
Dover’s powders (which may be had at the apotheca- ries’ Ihops) for two or three nights, lying then between 
blankets. If any pain flill continues, it may be looked 
upon as verging to chronic rheumatifm, and the fol- 
lowing may be given; one hundred drops of vola- 
tile tindlure of guaiacum, in a little water three times 
a-day. 
In general nothing can be done that will be of fer- 
vice as an outward application ; however, a little Caftite 
foap, dilTolved in -water, may be ufed to fatisfy. 
In fighter cafes the bleeding may be omitted, and 
the falts, with a common fweat of feneca tea, ufed. 
CHAP. XXIII. 
CHRONIC RHEUMATISM 
THE former difeafe is apt to terminate in this; 
efpecially when the patient is advanced in years : 
Cold is the common caufe of it. 
Symptoms. A pain of fome ©f the joints, or about 
the junction of the bones, with a ffiffnefs of the part. 
No rednefs or fwclling, like that from inflammation, 
aftedls the part, though after a long continuance, an 
enlargement of the joints is apt to take place. Lit- 
tle or no fever attends here, heat leflens the pain, and 
cold increafes it; quite contrary to what takes place 
in the preceding complaint. When the pains £x 
about the fmall of the back, the affection is termed a 
Lumbago; when about the hip, in which cafe the 
patient becomes fomewhat lame, a Sciatica. 
Management. The part affedled, if poffible, fhould be 
conftantly wrapt in flannel, the patient fhould ufe wine 
with any food he may chufe, which will agree with 
his llomach. 
CUre. Ninety drops of volatile tlndfure of guaiacum, 
fhould be taken in a little w'ater, four times a-day: if 
this does not anfwer, the fallowing pills may be ufed 
till they produce fome eflfedl; twelve grains of calomel 
and twelve grains of opium, to be made into one do- z-en pills, one to be taken morning and evening, wafii- 
ing it down with a large quantity of Virginia fnakc 
root, lignum vitas, or falfafras tea. Bolides thefe 
there are other common remedies, which are lefs cer- 
tain, as a decodlion of prickly afh, muftard whey, 
balfams, See. In what is called the fciatica, twelve 
drops of fpirit of turpentine, in a little honey, taken 
night and morning, is particularly effe&ual. 
The external remedies in rheumatifm, are fpirits of 
camphor, fpirits of hartfnorn and oil; oil and fpirits 
of turpentine, electricity applied by infolation, and 
drawing fparks; the flefh brufh, cold water daftied on. 
However, this laft is more effectual in cafes that are 
between the inflammatory and chronic, where one 
joint Is chiefly affedled. 
CHAP. XXIV. 
TOOTH ACH. 
QAUSES. A general cold, cold air applied to the 
cheeks in an unufual and fudden manner, acrlds, 
fweets, or acids applied to the teeth, the acrid matter 
cf a rotten tooth, extraordinary violence, as in break- 
ing hard fubftances, blows, &c. Befides thefe there 
are certain difpofing caufes, under which the ufual ex- 
pofure we are confLntly liable to, is a fufficient caufe ; 
as a nerve being laid bare, by rotting or extraction of 
a tooth, pregnancy, hyfteric difpofitions, See. 
Symptoms. Thefe are various in different circum- 
ffanees. In the tooth ach that proceeds from com- 
mon cold, there are frequently fymptoms of a rheu- 
matic affe&ion of the adjacent parts, the pain extend- 
ing from the tooth to the face, and along up to the 
temple, with a throbbing cf the arteries, and reduefs, 
fometimes a little fwclling of the face, and withal a 
feverilhnefs. In moll other cafes, a violent pain of 
the tooth, with a little Inflammation of the gum, are 
the only fymptoms, except that about the terminati- 
on, the face (in relaxed habits) is apt to fwell. 43 
Management. The patient {hould carefully avoid 
every caufe, and confine himfelf to his room. In the 
cafe of rheumatic fymptoms, his food and drink 
(hould be of the weaked and lighted kind, and a filk 
handkerchief (hould be applied over his face. In the 
other cafes, the face (hould be wrapped in flannel, and 
no change made in the food or drink. The tooth 
(hould be (lopped with lint. 
Cure. In the fird cafe it will be the bed way to 
aim at the removal of the cold, by giving a dofe of 
(alts, and taking a fweat of weak whey, with a tea- 
fpoonful of fait petrc. After this a fmall blider applied 
to the part will be mod effectual ; or, indead of this, 
fvveating the part with hot herbs, or a hot done, wrapt 
in mold or dry rags, may beufeful. In general, in fuch 
a cafe it will be of little ufe to apply any thing to 
the tooth itfelf, till the above has been fird done, then 
a little laudanum and (pints may be held in the mouth. 
In all the other cafes, topical applications are more 
effectual. The chief of thefe are opium, camphor, oil 
of cloves, and other warm eflential oils; with thefe, 
eledlricity, burning the tooth, applying a hot iron to 
the car, and many other means, have been at times ef- 
fectual. But it is often neceffary with thefe to give 
fmall dofcs of laudanum, and apply a blider, and when 
thefe fail, extracting the tooth ; which may be done at 
any time, by a careful trudy operator : but if this does 
not relieve, the pain paffmg to another tooth, the pa- 
tient diould not infid upon that being drawn, but 
commit all to patience. The bed manner of applying 
topicals is to infert the medicine into the hollow, and 
cover it with lint or wax. CHAP. XXV 
THE GOUT, 
THE caufes of the gout, for better comprehending 
them, may be placed under four heads. 
1 ft. The prime caufes ; which are the ufe of exceftlve 
quantities of high feafoned animal food, and the libe- 
ral ufe of wine and other fpirituous liquors. Thefe 
are fuppofed to produce their effeft, by caufing an ac- 
tion in the extreme veflels (which are employed in nu- 
trition) in degree and conftancy, above what they were 
conftnnfled to bear, fo that as foon as the body ceafes 
to yield, which is at the end of growth, the veftels 
from being over excited, are overcome, and fuller an 
indirect debility, and relaxation. 
2d. The predifpofing caufes ; under which a lefs de- 
gree of the above brings on the complaint, becaufe they 
aim at the fame point: they are, indolence, hereditary 
delicacy of the parts that fuffer in the gout (from a 
general limilarity to the parent) and that tendency in 
the animal ceconomy which produces a robuft and grofs 
habit. Thefe caufes would, when they had proceeded 
to a certain extent, bring on the gout : but it is fcl- 
dom the cafe, that it is not helped on by what may he 
called 
3d. The exciting caufes ; as venery, debauchery, 
cold applied to the feet, indigeftion, much application 
of mind, night watching, paffions, exceftlve evacua- 
tions, changing of habits, debilitating difeafes, bruifes 
or ftrains of the parts that fuffer in gout ; the ufe of 
acids and acid fruits, &c. All thefe add by debilitating 
generally or topically, and this being always accompa- 
nied with a relaxation, expofes the injured parts to the 
irritation of the air in an uncommon manner. The 
irritation of the air brings about 
4th. The proximate or immediate caufe ; which is 
a fuperabundant afflux of the nervous, or vital princi- 
ple, to the parts moft debilitated or moft expol'cd (to the common Irritations;) ufually the extremity of the 
joints, or ball of the great tc£. This afflux of vital 
principle has two efl'edls. 1ft. As there is no fen- 
fation without the prefence of this principle, fo in the 
abundance of it, the fenfation is exquiiite. 2dly. As 
there is no circulation without it, and the circulation 
is in proportion to it, fo, in the abundance of it, the 
circulation is increafed to inflammation, and the tender 
parts are forced, and filled fafter than they can propel 
the blood; hence congeftion, rednefs and pain of the 
joint, and in fuch parts as are not plentifully furnifhed 
with veflels, the mufcular fibres are ccntra&ed to a fpafm. 
THE SYMPTOMS OF THE REGULAR 
GOUT. 
A CEASING of the fweat to which the feet have 
been accuftomed, an unufual coldnefs of the legs and 
feet, a frequent nurabnefs, alternating- with a prick- 
ling fenfation all along the courfe of the extremities, 
frequent cramps of the legs, and a fwelling of the 
veins. Whilll thefe fymptoms take place in the parts 
mentioned, the whole body is affedled with a degree of 
torpor and langour; the functions of the ftomach in 
particular are more or lefs difturbed, the appetite is 
diminifhed, and flatulency with other fymptoms of in- 
digeftion felt. Thefe fymptoms take place for fome 
days before the fit of the gout comes on, but often on 
the day preceding the fit, the appetite becomes great- 
er than ufual: The fit ufually begins about three 
o’clock in the morning, with pain afFe&ing one foot, 
moft commonly at the ball of the great toe, but forne- 
times in other parts of the foot ; with the coming on of 
the pain there is ufually more or lefs of a cold fliivering, 
which as the pain increafes gradually gives way to heat 
and fever, which lafts as long as the pain docs. From 
the firft attack the pain becomes more violent till the 
next midnight, after which it gradually remits, and 
after continuing about twenty-four hours, ufually 
ceafes, with a fwearing and lleep. The next morning after the remiffon, a fuelling and 
rednefs is to be perceived in the part affefted, which 
after continuing feme days, gradually abates. 
But though the pain ceafes at the end of twenty-four 
hours, it ufually returns every evening, with, lei's and 
lefs violence and fever, and again abates in the morn- 
ing : this recurring continues fome days, and then 
-goes off very entirely, till the third, fecond, or next 
dpring, following. This is the cafe in the firft attack 
of the gout: but the returns become more frequent, 
till at length after fome years the patient is never clear 
of it, except a mouth or fo in the fummer feafon : Af- 
ter the gout has continued, the pain does not remain 
in one joint, but ihifts about until it has attacked al- 
moft every joint in the body. 
After a fit is over, the patient feels himfelf recruited, 
in body and mind. 
As the gout proceeds, the pains become lefs fevere 
and more continued, and the other affeftions are more 
confiderahle, fo that the flomaeh is very much affedted 
with licknefs. 
After the lirft fits of the gout, the joints remain 
fupple ; but in the advanced Rate they become ftiff and 
motionlefs, with earthy concretions. 
In thole who have buffered much with the gout, a 
complaint of the kidneys frequently alternates with the 
gouty affedlions. 
MANAGEMENT BETWEEN THE FITS 
IF it he early in the complaint, or the patient not 
debilitated, gentle continued bodily exercife and a diet 
of vegetables and milk fhould beufed; but if the patient 
is already much injured by it, neither of the above willbe 
fafe. His exercife fhould then be geftation, for walk- 
ing would injure the parts too much, and other exer- 
cife would be fatiguing : His diet fhould be of the 
moll nourifhing vegetables, milk and light meats, which 
laft maybe ufed more and in proportion to the debility, 
and if this be conliderable, it will be neceffary to uie good Madeira, diluted for drink; othenvlfe, all fpi- 
rituous liquors fhould be abftaincd from. The cauiea 
mentioned fhould as much as poflible be avoided, and 
the patient fhould keep his bowels regular with a little 
falphur, caftor oil, lenitive elecftuary, or any mild 
Opening medicine; which are to be ufed at all times to 
prevent or remove the coftivenefs. 
In general, it will be found ufeful after a fit not to 
rife loon, but to keep warm in bed moft of the morn- 
ing, and to go to bed early. 
TREATMENT IN THE FIT 
AT this time very little can be done to advantage. 
If the patient is vigorous, and the inflammation and 
pain conliderable, blood-letting, may be once perform- 
ed, though fparingly. Scarce any thing folid fhould be 
taken for diet, and when the patient has fufFered much 
from want of reft, fifteen drops of laudanum in one 
tea-fpoonful of fpirits of nitre dulcified, may be taken 
at night. Applying poultices of bread and milk to 
the parts, will ibmetimes give eafe to a final! extent, 
and in a violent cafe may be tried; carded wool Humid 
always be applied. 
When the inflammation has gone off, and a ftifthefs 
remains, it will be of fervice to ufe the tiefh-brufh to 
rub the parts with, and after the lit to take regularly 
fome of the preparations of fteel, mentioned hereafter. 
OF THE ATONIC GOUT, OR GOUT OF THE 
STOMACH. 
IN fuch patients as have brought the gout on them- 
felves, this peculiarity feldom happens till late in the 
diforder, when the fyftem is generally debilitated, and 
there is little difpofttion to inflammation. In fuch a 
Hate the ftomach is ufually much debilitated, and lia- 
ble to be adled upon by a flighter caufe than what 
would bring on an affe&ion of a joint. From the above circumftances of debility, general 
and topical, as well as from the ftomach being defend- 
ed from the application of the common air (which 
produces the re-adtion, or inflammation in the regular 
gout) it happens that the gout of the ftomach is a ve- 
ry different affection from the regular gout ; being a 
cafe of deficient and irregular adtion of the part, in- 
ftead of an inflammation and excefllve adtion as in the 
regular ; and hence requiring very different remedies. 
Symptoms. Lofs of appetite, indigeftion, flatulen- 
cy, naufea and vomiting, acid erudtations, pains and 
cramps in different parts, which yield upon the dif- 
charge ©f wind ; coftivenefs, though fometimes loofe- 
nefs, colic pains and hypocondriac fymptoms (which 
conftfts in a great attention to the flighteft fymptoms, 
and an apprehefttion of danger) an abfence of inflam- 
matory affedtions of the joints, and of fever. 
Management, The patient’s food fhould be a mix- 
ture of animal and vegetable, of the moft nutrient and 
digeftible kind, taken rather at many times than in 
large quantities. Wine and water, or fpirlt and wa- 
ter fhould be his drink : It will be of great advantage 
to keep clofe to the bed, except when the patient is 
able, and the weather good, then he Ihould ride in a 
.carriage daily. 
Treatment. Fifteen grains of ruft of fteel, with as 
much pounded orange-peel, may be taken with mint 
water,, or a little fpirit of lavender, four or five times 
a-day. 
A tea-fpconful of faline aromatic fpirlt will alfo be 
of fervice to take a few times a day. 
If indigeftion prevails much, fourteen grains of ipe- 
cacuana may be given every five or fix days, or large 
draughts of ftrong camomile tea, which will frequently 
have, the fame e fie cl. 
A third variety of the gout is, when the inflamma- 
tion has appeared firft in its ufual place (the joints) 
but from improper treatment, bad management, expo- 
fure, and other lefs obfervsble cauies, it leaves the joints, 
and fixes upon the ftomach or forae other part. r This is called the rf.trockdf.kt gout. When the 
ilomach receives the affection, a great anxiety, lick- 
jiels and vomiting attend; if the lungs, an afthmatic 
affection is the product; if the heart, fainting; if the 
head, an apoplexy. 
When the ftomach or bowels are attacked, wine, 
•with fpices boiled in it, fhould be given plentifully, or 
if this is not fufficient, fpirits with fpices in large dofes. 
In {lighter cafes, lefs doles of fpirits, in which garlic 
has been deeped, may be given; with this the pa- 
tient’s feet may be deeped in a ftrong hot mixture of 
fpirits and water, and blifters laid on the ankles; vola- 
tile aromatic fpirits, and affafostida, are alfo proper te» 
be given, but they are lefs powerful than fpirits and. 
fpices. When the vomiting is troublefome, it may be 
encouraged w'ith camomile tea, arid afterwards retrain- 
ed by twenty or thirty drops of laudanum with a 
drachm of fpirits of nitre dulcified: vitriolic xther 
and mufk are fometimes ufeful. 
When any of the other parts are affected, a bliftcr 
fhould. be immediately applied, and the bath of fpirits 
and water applied to the feet. If the patient is able 
to bear bleeding, it fhould be performed when the 
head or lungs are affected. In all cafes, a gentle de- 
termination to the furface fhould be aimed at, by giv- 
ing one tea-fpoonful of faline aromatic fpirits every two 
hours : or fpirits of nitre dulcified and laudanum every 
two or three hours. The fourth and laft variety of 
the gout is the misplaced. That is, when the pa- 
tient, inflead of a regular affeCtion, is immediately 
(without any preceding affection of the joints) affcCjt- 
ed with an Inflammation of the lungs, the bladder, or 
the lower end of the laft gut; in this laft it brings 
on the piles ; when it affects the bladder, it brings on 
ftranguary or a difficult difeharge of urine. Thefe af- 
fections are to be treated as directed in the chapters 
for them ; remembering the conftitution and fituatio« 
of the patient. 
During every fpecies,, coftivenefs fhould be removed 
by three or four grains of aloes, or twenty-five of rhubarb. And between every affection, the fvftem 
maybe ftrengthened by the following medicine; half a 
winctglafs full of which may be taken twice a day, at 
eleven and at four o’clock; port wine, one quart, rufty 
iron or iron flakes, one handful, cinnamon one ounce ; 
let them remain one week, and then ufe them. 
Observations. 1ft, It appears, that a primary goitt 
Is the confequence of a general injury done to the fyf- 
tem ; but that the ftomach and. extremities iuffer chief- 
ly, becaufe the ftomach is particularly injured by the 
prime caufes, and the extremities are more expofed 
(from their diftance from the heart, and other caufes) 
to the irritation of the air, which far exceeds common 
notice and opinion. 
2dly, It is alfo plain, that thofe who are much pre- 
difpofed to the gout by hereditary confutation of the 
parts, cannot poffibly efcape it; becaufe that quantity 
of food which is neceflary for nutrition, will produce 
an aiftion, that the veffeh ufually injured in the gout 
cannot fupport through life. 
Sdly, A fit of the gout is a change in the fyftem, 
which aims at a removal of the injury; only being 
unbounded and exceftive, not produced by any inter- 
nal colifcientious power, but by phyftcal laws. 
CHAP. XXVI. 
THE SMALL POX. 
THE fmall pox is of two kinds; the diftinft and 
the confluent: As they demand a very different 
treatment, I fhall not confound them, but treat of 
them feparately. 
THE DISTINCT SMALL POX. 
THE caufc of this is a fpecific contagion. 
Symptoms. About eight days after inoculation, and 
probably the fame time after taking it the natural way, a fever appears of the continued inflammatory 
kind: after this has continued about three da.ys,*a 
diftind eruption of imall pimples, like flea-bites, ap- 
pear on the face ; thcfe increafe and extend, fo that 
about the end of the filth day, the eruption is com- 
pleted and extended to, the extremities : from the firffc 
eruption the-fever ulually declines, and at the.finilhing 
of the eruption it ceaies. During the fever, children 
axe. frequently affected with parting, and if kept warm, 
with fits. 
About the eighth day after the eruption, thefe pim- 
ples have increafed to fpheroidal puftules, fdled with 
matter, with a red margin around each. 
. Before the puftules are quite filled, a {'welling of the 
face takes place, which fubfides as foou as the puftules 
are filled: a fwelling of the wrifts and feet fucceeds 
the above, juft in the progreflion of the eruption. ; 
during this period a fore throat is common. 
After the puftules are fully ripe and yellow, they 
then either pour out the matter, from a fmall rupture 
at their top, or the matter is ab for bed, leaving an emp- 
ty flat bag : the former is ufaally. the cafe w ith tuple 
on the face ; the latter with thofe on the arms and. 
thighs ; in this way they decline till they are perfect- 
ly dried up, which takes place, from eight to fifteen 
days (from the time they begin to decline) according 
to fize and number of the poftules ; pits are frequently- 
left behind. 
Management. The patient Ihould be kept cool, both 
by going into the air, and thinning his cloathing : 
the cuftom of expofing to bad weather, ex- 
treme cold, and pulling off from children the flannels 
•which they have been long ufed to, has occafioned the 
worft Qonlequences: a medium therefore is to be ob- 
feeved. Thofe who, are in. a good ftate of health 
Ihould live chiefly on vegetables, what meat they do 
ufe, fhoujd by all means be frefh ; but thofe who are 
weakly Ihould not alter their food, fo as to weaken 
themfelves, but only choofe fuch as they always Ihould, 
viz, digeftible mild food. This Ihould be the ma- nag'ement until the fever commences, Avhcn they 
fhould ufe nothing but light fpoon-aliments, fuch as 
barley, gruel, panada, cuftard, jelly, &c. Spirituous 
drinks fhould be altogether avoided ; at the time of the 
lever fuch drinks as the following may be taken more 
or lefs, in proportion to the height of the fever, viz. 
lemonade, cream of tartar diflblved in water, and fweet- 
ened, jelly and water, apple-tea, made by pouring 
boiling water on undrefTed, red-ftreaked apples, diced 
very thin ; the drink to be fweetened: thefe drinks, 
abftinence, and vegetable food, with the directions for 
keeping the patient cool, may be obferved until the 
number of pocks and favour of the difeafe be deter- 
mined, after which they may be gradually relinqulfh- 
cd ; the expofure firft, and then the others, and the 
proper habits returned to. 
The firft Aveek in May Is probably the befttime for 
inoculation, in the ftates of Pennfylvania, Delaware, 
and Maryland; farther fouthAvard, April; farther 
northward, the latter end of May : but avaricious 
aims have been the caufe of adopting an earlier feafon. 
It is upon the whole, in large toAvns, fafeft to inocu- 
late before teething, but only becaufe of the danger 
of taking it the natural Avay; w here that is not to be 
feared, then from the fifth to the twelfth year, is far 
preferable; If any thing be amifs, avc can then ftand fome 
Chance of redlifying it, by fuitable treatment, but with 
infants Ave can only deplore their ftate, when the com- 
plaint takes an unfavourable turn. 
Treatment. To thofe Avho are pretty hearty, or of 
a full habit, between the time of inoculation and fever, 
two dofes of Glauber falts, or cream of tartar, fuffi- 
cient to procure four or five ftools and not more, may 
be given ; but to thofe Avho are lean or weakly, no 
purgatives fhould be given, only coftivenefs fhould be 
removed by a little cream of tartar, or the pills No, 
6. If they have not a paffage CAery day, this will be 
neceffary ; or if they have a paffage every day, and 
the ftools fhould be hard and difficultly palled, the 
pills, or a clyfter of oil, fugar, milk, and a little fcraped Caftile foap, which is probably the belt, is to 
be given. 
If at the commencement of the fever, the patient 
feels much opprefTion at the Ilomacb, uneafinefs and 
giddiuefs, it will be proper to adininifter an emetic of 
two grains of tartar emetic, dilfolved in a cup of warm 
water, or of ten grains of ipecacuana ; at the fame 
time he fhould have frefh air : when the fever has com- 
menced, if it runs high, it will be proper to give a 
dofe of falts, which may be taken at two or three por- 
tions : If this does not leffen the fever, take four 
grains of tartar emetic, and put them into a quart of 
apple or other tea ; three table-fpoonfuls of this to be 
given every hour, till the eruption appears, keeping 
him coo! withal. If the eruption appears numerous, 
and the pulfe be ufually hrong, a dole of falts will be 
of ufe, a$ it will bring many of the pimples to nothing ; 
after thi? nothing more will be neceflary, but to keep 
the bowels regular with fmali doles of any mild medi- 
cine. 
When the pocks have dried away, If any fore or un- 
dulatory motion of the mitfcles take place, a few pills 
of the following form may be given ; calomel twelve 
grains, opium three grains, honey enough to form 
them into twelve pills, one of which may be taken 
night and morning. 
If'the arm inflames much, pour cold water on ic 
daily, for ten minutes together. 
N. B. All the above preicriptions of medicine are 
for grown perfons. 
THE CONFLUENT SMALL POX. 
SYMPTOMS.. In this the fever is more violent 
than in the former, the pulfe being quicker and more 
contracted ; a difpofition to coma, or a deep drowli- 
nefs, is almoft always prefent with the incipient fever, 
and, a delirium is a frequent fymptom : infants' are fre- 
quently attacked -with fits in the firft days ; vomiting 
is here a common fymptom : early in the third day? the pimples break out in cinders, and thefe are fre- 
quently preceded or accompanied with an elHorefcence 
tike St. Anthony’s fire. 
When the eruption is compleated, it is found to be 
much more numerous in the face than on the body ; 
the pocks are lefs eminent : at the end of the eruption 
the fever does net go off, but only remits, to inereale 
with more violence, when the pocks have acquired 
their fummit ; this is called the fecondary fever : The 
pimples foon turn to veficles filled with whitilh or brown 
water, inftead of yellow matter, as in the diftindf : the 
pocks are very irregular, and run into one another in 
many places, lb as to form one large flat pock, cover- 
ing aimed the whole face ; wherever there is any fpace 
between them, it is not florid, but pale and Ihrivelled. 
The fwelling of the face, that fometimes attends 
the diftinft, it here always prefent at an earlier period, 
and rlfes to a greater height ; the difeharge of faliva 
is generally great about the fame time ; both fubfide 
about the tenth or eleventh day, counting from the 
attack of the incipient fever. With infants a lax is. 
common Indead of a fall vat inn. 
The pocks over the body, though didinft, are ge- 
nerally flat, and upon the whole, there is a great ten- 
dency to putrefa&ion. 
The management of this fhould be much the fame 
as that directed for the didinft, except that towards 
the latter end, when the patient grows weak, and fymp- 
toms of putridity prevail, then the patient Ihould have 
for drink, fixty drops of elixir of vitriol, to one pint cf 
fpirits and water, or wine and water, and a moderate de- 
gree of warmth fhould be kept up. Great attention? 
fhould be given to keep the roam clean, fweet, and 
ventilated, as directed for the putrid fever. 
Treatment. When the fymptoms appear as laid 
down, with confulerable fever ; give one fixth of a 
grain of tartar emetic in apple-tea, or common drink 
®f any kind, every hour. From the fifth day * on- 
•The day isalways reckoned from the attack of the incipient fever. 55 
ward, till the eruption be compleated, give twenty 
drops of laudanum, every morning and night, taking 
care to remoye the codivenefs it occafions, by giving 
cream of tartar, or cador oil daily, if necefTary. When 
the fecondary fever comes on, the fame treatment with 
tartar emetic and laudanum fhould be ufed, until the 
fymptoms of putrefa&ion and weak pulfc take place, 
then all fhould be dropped, for bark and port wine, 
which may be given every hour, fb that the patient 
may take a pint of wine and one ounce of bark, from 
morning till bed time. 
From the eighth day to the eleventh, when the fe- 
ver is violent, bliders fiiould be laid on fuccefllvely, 
without any refpeO to the pocks; the wriffs, thighs, 
back of the neck, and bread, are proper places ; when 
the (welling in the throat threatens fuffocation, a blilter 
fhould be applied over the throat, and the throat gar- 
gled with a mixture of one drachm of elixir of vitriol, 
to half a pint of lage tea and a little honey; or iu- 
fteadoftbis, with vinegar and water. 
If the fits, that ufually attack children, happen but 
once or twice, nothing need be done but to keep 
them cool: but if they are frequent, they are likely to 
dedroy the patient ; then as large a dole of laudanum 
as the child can take, fhould be given. 
The bark, with the vitriol and water, fiiould be con- 
tinued for a confiderabie time after the difeafe, tu 
drengthen'the fydem, though it fhould be ufed in a leis 
quantity. 
CHAP. XXVII. 
THE CHICKEN POX. 
THIS diforder appears to arife from a fpeclfic con- 
tagion in the air; like the final! pox, It never 
returns. 
Symptoms. The patient is generally, for one or two 
nights, or nights and days, affedled with fever, which 
mod always is flight; at no certain period, though 
perhaps always before the third day, the pocks appear on the face, and over the body ; they are never very 
numerous, though fometimes pretty large. In. the 
courfe of four days they are at their i'ummit, when they 
are about the fize of a large brifter {hot, and much of 
the fame form, filled with yellowllh or white water. 
They fometimes come out fucceffively inftead of a 
great many at oncer . 
Management, The patient Ihonhl be kept cool, efpe- 
cially when in bed ; light, vegetable food, and cooling 
acid drinks, Iboirid be ufed. 
Treatment. If the fever be wcithy attention, the 
bowels Ibould be opened with a dofe of cream of tar- 
tar or of falls, every day till it ceafes, and the acid drinks 
given plentifully. 
CHAP. . XXVIII* 
THE MEASLES. 
r]pHfS diforder arii'es from fpecific contagion, and' 
I never has been known to attack the fame perfoir 
twice. 
It ufually makes its appearance about January, and 
again ceafes at m-idfummer. Neverthclefs, it is not al- 
together adherent to any particular tirpes, for it con- 
tinues throughout the year, though lei's extenlively. 
Symptoms* It comes on like a,common fever, with 
a cpld ftage fucceeded by a hot one : a naui’ea, anxiety 
and vomiting, are pretty generally attendants. Some- 
times at the beginning, the fever is Iliarp and violent, 
but before the eruption it is molt generally fo, which 
happens about the fourth day; with thele a hoarfe- 
nefs, cough, difficult • breathing, fwelllng of the eye- 
lids, acijld dlfohaj-ge from the eyes and nofe, with 
fneezing, take place : generally a drowfuiefs attends 
the beginning. The eruption appears flrfton the face 
in fmall points like flea-bites, which foon may be ob- 
ferved by light or feeling, in clutters, fpreading them- 
felves over the whole body ; the face appears a little turgid during the firft two days of the eruption, after 
this, the eruption changes its colour from a fcarlet 
to a brown, and foon goes off very entirely, leaving a 
feurf. The fever fometimes goes off, when this de- 
fquamation takes place, but more commonly continues 
with the cough for fome time after the diforder has 
gone through its ftages, and rot unfrequently the 
cough and difficulty of breathing increafe towards the 
end, fo as to mark an inflammation of the lungs. After 
the defquamation, a lax or fweatiag ufually takes place, 
and continues for fome time. 
Management. The patient fliould avoid heat, but 
on the other hand, fliould not expofe himfelf fo much 
to the cool air, as in the fmall pox. He fliould live 
on a low vegetable diet, and cool acid demulcent 
drinks, fuch as flaxfeed tea, with lemon juice: barley 
water bailed with prunes, is alfo very good, efpecially 
for the cough. 
Treatment. If the fever that precedes the eruption 
he confiderable, it will, in adult patients, be proper to 
bleed, but in children, a purge or two of falts will be' 
generally fufficient. From the beginning, the drinks 
mentioned above and fyrups may be given to allay 
the cough ; but thefe are feldom fufficient; it will 
therefore be neceffary, from the time of the eruption, 
to give one tea-fpoonful of paregoric, twice a-day, and 
two at night in common drink. This treatment anck 
keeping the bowels open regularly, with gentle me- 
dicine, as falts and manna, in fmall dofes, cream of 
tartar, caftor oil, 8cc. fliould be continued in. When 
the defquamation or peeling of the fkin takes place, if 
the difficulty of breathing mentioned in the deferip- 
tion, comes on with a flrong pulfe : then the patient 
fliould be bled freely, and a blifter laid afterwards on 
the fide, as in a pleurify, and with thefe, one of the 
powders No. 1. may be given every two hours, or if 
it be a child, a fufficient quantity of antimonial wine, 
to be taken at intervals of two hours: during fuch a 
ftate the paregoric fliould be omitted. If the patient 
be unable to bear bleeding, the cafe then cannot be ve- ry violent; then purging and blifterlng with the pow- 
ders may be nfed ; gentle riding and bark are proper to 
rcftore the patient when much reduced* 
• C II A P. XXIX. 
THE SCARLET FEVER. 
THIS complaint cannot poffibly be feparated from 
the putrid fore throat, as the affection of the 
threat, eruption of the- fir in, and low or putrid fever, 
which are tire chief fymptorns, are attendants on both : 
added to this, the fame contagion will affeH one per- 
fon with w’hat is judged to be the putrid fore throat, 
and another with the fcarlatina. It is therefore pro- 
bable that the fcarlatina is only an affeflion of Jefs- 
magnitude, fometimts owing to the lenity of the ge- 
neral contagion, and then caufu)g fcarlatina univerfal- 
ly, and at other times owing to the diverfity of con- 
ftitutiojrs attacked.- Hence, for the cure, Stc. L 
refer to what I have laid of the putrid fore throat, 
Chap. xi. But it frequently happens that the ft aria tin a 
is lb flight as to fhew no putrid fymptoms but rather 
inflammatory : then &11 that will be required will be a 
blifter to the throat and keeping the bowels open vvitk 
cream of tartar. 
CHAP. XXX. 
St. ANTHONY'S FIRE. 
£AUSES. A hereditary difpofitlon thereto, or a 
peculiar delicacy of the membrane that fuffers the 
inflammation; paffions-of the mind, a fudden cooling- 
of the body after being heated by the fun, fpirituoiiSi 
liquors taken freely, hot drinks or hot baths, checked, 
evacuations, moift air, and perforation any how llopt, 
generally excite the difoafe in thofe predifpoftd. Symptoms. It commonly comeson with fhiverln'g 
and fucceeding heat with fever; the pulfe is general- 
ly quick, fometimes hard and full : a confulion of the 
head and fome degree of delirium frequently attend, 
but a drowGnefs almoft always, which fometimes in- 
creafes to a comatofe date. After thefe fymptoms 
have continued from one to three days, a reduefs molt 
commonly on the face appears, which increafes with 
a fwelling, that turns white, upon prelfing it with 
the finger. This goes on to increafe, though it com- 
monly abates in one part a little, to increafe in ano- 
ther ; in this manner it fometimes extends all over the 
head, and fwells the eye-lids, fo as to produce tempo- 
rary blindnefs. 
It is not an uncommon cafe for blifters to arife on 
the fwelling, filled with yellow' or whitllh ferum, which 
break after a while, and leave the part underneath 
blackilh, and very ready to turn gangrenous ; the Ikiu 
between thel'e blifters peels off; matter is fometimes 
difcharg-ed from the eye-lids : the inflammation and fe- 
ver ufually continue about ten days, aud then go oft’; 
when the fever goes on violently, and the inflammation 
extends, it is apt to produce an apoplexy. 
Thele are the fymptoms of a per feci difeafe, but 
flighter affections arc not unfrequent, even with little 
or no fever. 
Management. The patient fhould he kept cool, in 
proportion to the greatuefs of the fever : acid drinks 
and vegetable diet Ihould be tiled throughout. 
Treatment. When the cafe agrees with what is laid 
dowm above, half a pint or more of blood fhould be 
taken away, which may be repeated, if the habit al- 
low, and the pulfe and inflammation require it: after 
bleeding, cooling purgatives fhould be adminlftered ; 
one ounce of Glauber falts may be divided into four 
parts, one of which fhould be given every two hours, 
mixing it with lemon juice, which covers the bad 
tafte. 
This pradlice of adminiftering falts may be followed 
for fome days ; they not only open the bowels, hut tctnperate the heat and fever ; in flighter cafes bleed- 
ing fliould be laid afidc, and the medicines given as 
<lire<fled. 
Whenever there are any fymptoms of putrefa&ion, 
as a low, weak pulfe, daik colouring of the tongue 
and mouth, acrid and black fpots underneath where 
the Millers Hood; then all evacuations (except keep- 
ing the bowels regular, with a little rhubarb) fliould 
be laid aflde, and twelve grains of columbo root given 
every hour ; when this can be kept on the ftomach well, 
and docs not have fu flic lent effcft, as much bark fliould 
be given, and the dole increafcd as nccelhty requires, 
or as it will fit on the patient: wine and water, and 
vitriol and water, made by putting two tea-fpoonfuls 
of elixir of vitriol to a pint of water, may be drank 
alternately and freely. 
The patient is mofl always wanting fome topical 
application, for this phyficians have thought that meal 
fprinkled on the part, is the only proper application ; 
this, when the inflammation is confiderable, fits agree- 
ably, and has fome eft'cdl in foftening the Ikin, and if 
fprinkled on very flightly when the Millers difcharge, 
it dries up the humour : however patients are not con- 
tent with it, therefore apply either of the following 
with a rag moiilened in it ; half a pint of llrong tea of 
camomile flowers, or wormwood tops, fifteen grains of 
white vitriol, and a tea-fpoonful of laudanum or a llrong 
folution of alum. 
Sometimes from negledl, the part fuppurates ; then 
it fliould be poulticed with bread and milk till it is 
ripe, when it fliould be opened and drelfed with lint 
fpread with wax and oil melted together ; this need 
only be applied over the fore. 
Bark and vitriol, with frelh air, gentle exercife in a 
carriage in fair weather, will be proper to brace tip 
die habit in the end. CHAP. XXXI 
THE ESSERA, OR NETTLE RASH 
THIS generally attacks thofe of a delicate condi- 
tutlon, efpecially fuch as have a fine fkin, the ex- 
cellive irritability xff which appears to be a caufe of the 
difeafe. 
From the above it would appear, that women and 
children are the chief fubje&s of it ; which is agree- 
able to obfervation. 
Sjmpto7Hs. It ufually comes on in the night, pro- 
ducing great redleffnefs and itching. In the morning 
confiderable red eminences are to be obferved on fome 
parts of the body, ufually about the upper arms, neck, 
and bread ; their forms are irregular, fome being like 
the droke of a whip, others like the ding of a mofque- 
to. It is not unfrequent for them to difappear in the 
courfe of the day, and return again at night: the time 
of continuance is various, as they fometiraes continue 
for a week, and fometimes for a year or more. 
They have never been known to have any dangerous 
effeft ; the itching being all that is difagreeablc, 
which at times is fo troublefome as to prevent deep. 
Management, The patient fhould ufe exercife, 
bathing, and every proper means to remove fuch a de- 
licacy of couditution. 
Cure. This has been too little attended to, or per- 
haps we fhould ere this, have difcovered fome fimplc 
medicine that would remove it. 
I have fetn mercury recommended, arid in a few 
cafes which I havertreated, it was always attended 
with fuocefs.- * ! ■, 
Twelve grains of calomel, and as many of fulphur of 
antimony, may be made into a dozen pills, one of 
which may be taken for fix nights following, after 
which they may be ufed only twice a-week ; if the pa- 
tient’s gums become fore, they fhould be omitted; iEthlops mineral is alfo a proper medicine, twenty- 
grains may be ufed every other night for twenty days. 
Perhaps if common fulphur was tried eveiy night, 
it would have an equally good effeft. To guard againft 
the returns of it, bark may be ufed ; and ibine weeks 
after ufing the medicines prefcribed, the cold bath. 
CHAP. XXXII, 
BLEEDING AT THE NOSE. 
THOUGH this complaint attends at any age, and 
may trouble any confutation, yet it does not 
make the diforder I mean to treat of, except when it 
attacks young people, and cfpecially thofe who are full 
of blood. 
The animal oeconomy finds it proper not to increafe 
the different parts equally from the time of conception, 
but increafes certain parts fuccelfively ; this increafe is 
brought about by a determination of blood to thefe 
parts ; hence the different periods of life, that we fee 
fluxes of blood making their appearance may be eafily 
accounted for : and hence this complaint in the youth- 
ful, and the following complaint immediately after that 
period. 
It requires attention, or it will foon be accompanied 
with very difagreeable circumftances. 
Sjfnptoms. A head-ach, rednefs of the eyes, florid 
countenance, and throbbing of the temporal arteries, 
ufually precede for a while before the effufion, but im- 
mediately before it a fulnefs of the face, and itching' at 
the note take place ; befide thefe, frequently more ge- 
neral fymptoms are obfervable ; as coftivenefs, pale 
urine, coldnefs of the feet, and flilvering : this is a de- 
feription which fuits the mofl perfect Hate of the 
complaint. 
The quantity of blood difeharged is various. 
Management. At the time the bleeding' comes ott, 
;the patient fhould be placed in a ftream of cool air, 63 
and be lupported erect ; he fliould avoid talking', or 
blowing his note. 
In the intervals he fliould avoid heat, {looping his 
head, or walking faft, more efpecially alter eating: 
his exercife fliould be gentle and conflant, and this may 
be partly in riding and walking, and partly in the oc- 
cupation of his bulinef9,.if that be mechanical. The 
cold, bath may be tiled daily, in which he may remain 
fome tiriie ; this has* befide a bracing property, a 
tendency to make the patient lean : a little care fliould 
be ufed in the beginning ; no cap fhould be worn, on 
the head to keep the water from that part. He fliould 
live upon a vegetable diet chiefly, and ufe cold water 
for his conflant drink. 
Cure. In beginning to treat the patient, if he has 
not already loft much blood, a few ounces may be tak- 
en from him, a little before the time of the bleeding’s 
coming on, and ever afterward a dole of falts may be 
ufed at the fame time ; and it may be obferved in ge- 
neral, that it will be neceffary to keep the bowels very 
regular. If after the falts have been taken, the difpo- 
iition is not removed, one of the fever powders, No. 1. 
may be ufed every two hours, for two days, and large 
quantities of lemon juice taken between each dole. 
When the bleeding comes on, it may be luffered to 
continue till lix ounces have been difeharged, provided 
the patient be full of blood, but if otherwife, it 
fliould be Hopped immediately, by pouring cold water 
on his head, hands, and tefticles, and by drinking cold 
water ; at the fame time, ufing doffils of lint, dipt in a 
ftrong folution of alum and water, or in any common 
aftringent, and applied up the noie : a piece of fponge 
is fometimes of fervice : a weak folution of blucllone 
has fometimes flopped the bleeding, after other things 
have failed. But in many cafes neither of the above 
will anfwcr, then the patient’s life is In danger, and 
the following fimple method may be ufed by any com- 
mon perfon, who has the leaft degree of prefence of 
mind ; take a needleful of filk, wax it and tie to one 
end of it a dofiil of well feraped lint, about as large as a thumb, get a piece of cat-gut firing feveral inches 
long, greafe it a little, pufh this cat-gut through the 
bleeding noflril into the mouth, till you obferve it 
come out near the throat, lay hold of it with a pair of 
narrow pincers or forceps, or, in their .{lead, with a 
dull pair of fciffars, and draw it till you have both 
ends in yotlr hands ; tie a knot in the end that you 
have drawn through, and to this knot fallen your lilk 
and draw back the cat-gut till you have drawn the 
doffil of lint againll the orifice of the paffage that 
leads into the throat, then you need only flop up the 
noftrlJ with another doffil of lint, which will fhut up 
the paffage altogether, and hinder any more blood 
from coming out. The lint fhould be kept in for three 
or four days. 
The cat-gut is only for the purpofc of getting the 
filk through, which is tco limber of itfelf: In pufb- 
ing the cat-gut through, you are not to pufh it up- 
wards, as the noflrils apparently lead, bnt direflly 
backward, aiming at the upper part of the throat 
where it comes out: the noflrils turn at about half an 
inch after you have pufhed it upwards. By the ftated 
returns of this complaint, and the habit of the patient 
as well as by the quantity, you may eafily diftinguilh 
it from what is termed, apaffive flowing of blood from 
the nofe. 
In this complaint, the ufual topical applications for 
the other kind are fufficient; but with this the cold 
bath may be ufed, which is an effedlual remedy, from 
my own experience; with this or without it, tinclure 
of iron No. may be ufed. 
C II A P. XXXIII, 
SPITTING OF BLOOD 
/"'AUSES. Befxdes the predlfpofition mentioned in 
the preceding chapter, we may conlider, as exciting 
caufes, fuppretted evacuations, fudden changes of the 'air from heavy to lighter, violent efforts, compreffion 
in different parts, &tc. 
Symptoms. After fome general diforder, as flatulen- 
cy, chills, &c. a fvdnefs is often felt about the cheft. 
From the blood being poured out, an irritation is 
made, to relieve which, the patient hawks or coughs, 
by which means he difcharges a little frothy, reddifh, 
and fomewhat faltifh fpittle ; this fenfation often re- 
turns again, and' the fpittle is thrown out of a deeper 
red. In this manner the patient ufually difcharges 
the blood for fome hours or days, when it ceafes for 
that period. But it fometimes happens, that the rup- 
ture is more confiderable, and thd pure blood is dif- 
charged in fuch quantities, as to excite vomiting : 
in fuch a cafe the patient’s life is in immediate danger. 
A cough ufually follows the bleeding, which returns 
fometimes every week, and fo on at every period be- 
tween that and a year. 
Management. This Ihould be exa&Iy as deferibed 
for the preceding diforder, pnly that the cold bath 
Ihotdd not be ufed, as we have not fufficient experi- 
ence to recommend it, and the cold Ihould be here very 
moderate, as when it is fevere, it determines the blood 
to the lungs which is to be avoided. 
Treatment. If the patient be able to bear it, blood 
Ihould be taken away, though not in profufion. As 
foon as the bleeding takes place, this Ihould be follow- 
ed by a dofe of Glauber falts. And ever afterwards 
when we apprehend from the fymptoms before de- 
feribed, that the bleeding is about to return, we Ihould 
anticipate it by the repetition of the falts, which I 
have feen attended with the belt fuccefs. 
When the bleeding is copious, befides the manage- 
ment of expofing the patient to cool air, let him take 
a tea-fpoonful of common fait, and repeat it when ne- 
ceffary. This has been often effedlual, and may be 
carried in the perfon’s pocket) when repeated frriaH 
bleedings plague him, or ten grains of alum every 
hour. In the intervals nitre Ihould he given to reduce 
and cool the fyftem, ten grains in flaxfeed tea, may be given three or four times a-day ; after the commo- 
tion has ceafed, the country air Ihould be ufed. It 
is fometimes neceffary to take a tea-fpoonful of pare- 
goric elixir at night, in the morning, and at noon, to 
quell the cough. 
CHAP. XXXIV. 
CONSUMPTION. 
QAUSES. A hereditary, natural, or acquired debi- 
lity of the lungs, may be looked upon as caufes of 
this fatal diforder ; under fuch circumdances, almoft 
any irritation upon thofe parts will edablilh the con- 
fumption ; and it is fomewhat doubtful if any caufe 
■will do the fame, without the predifpofiticn. 
Symptoms. Cough, pain about the bread, fpitting 
of naufeous matter at all times of the day, which is 
fometimes dreaked with blood; a fever which comes 
on at noon, frequently with {hivering, and moil al- 
ways with coldnefs, which remits towards the after- 
noon, to exacerbate or renew its violence at night, 
continuing with the other affections, and after a while 
being followed in its fecond fit towards morning with 
a copious fweat. 
The pulfe in this fever, which is a hectic, is quick 
and mod generally weak, though in its fird attack 
fome degree of hardnefs is to be felt. The fever is 
always kindled by taking much food at a time. To- 
wards the end of the confumption, a lax takes place 
which generally carries off the patient. 
Management. The patient Ihould live upon a light 
digedible diet; milk, vegetables, fpoon-meats, pud- 
dings, piesj kc. are proper ; thefe diould be taken in 
fmall quantities at a time, and ufed the oftener, on 
that account. The teas and drinks jjj-efcribed for fevers 
are the proper drinks to be ufed. 
Exercife in a carriage or falling, are almod indif- 
penfably necedaiy j the country air is fo far preferable to the town, that the former will fometimes alone per* 
fe£l a cure, and the latter refill every means. Cold 
Ihouldbe guarded againft, and for this as well as other 
reafons, a flannel fhirt Qiould be worn. 
Cure. If the patient is not low and thin, he fliculd 
he bled every week for three or four times, taking 
away about a quarter of a pint of blood each time, 
till all ligns of increafed aftion or hardnefs are gone 
from the pulfe ; if tliey give way at the firft bleeding 
no more is to be ufed. After this, or when this is 
not allowable, eight grains of ipecacuana fhould be 
given every four days, for as many times as they ap- 
pear to be beneficial; when this has been done, the 
patient fhould take twenty drops of elixir of vitriol, 
early in the morning, at ten o’clock, and again af- 
ter the noon fever has abated and before the even- 
ing one has come one. To allay the cough take two 
ounces of paregoric, two grains of tartar emetic, or 
when tartar docs not agree, two ounces of the fpii its 
of nitre dulcified: two frnall tea-fpoonfuls may be ufed 
at night, and half that quantity taken at any in 
the day when it is troublefome. When the pain in 
the bread is confiderable, bllflers may be ufed ; a feton 
fhould be put in the fide in the beginning. 
The bowels fhould be kept regular, with fmall dofes 
cf callor oil, fulphur, magnefia, or cream of tartar. 
The above prefcriptions, although the bell and fim- 
plefl that can be recommended, frequently fail, and 
when the difcafe threatens to refill them, a fea voyage 
fhould be recommended as the only refuge. 
It is not unfrequent that the confumption is com- 
bined with other affedlJons, then we mull have regard 
to thefc affe&ions, or no cure can be expedled. But 
fuch cafes are fo complex, that they require the judg- 
ment of an able phyfician. CHAP. XXXV. 
THE PILES. 
A LAXITY of the gut, affe&ed, natural, or ac- 
quired, difpofes to this complaint, fo much that 
flight caufes bring it about. 
The following are found to be the ufual caufes, viz. 
much walking or riding, coftivenefs, long continuance 
in an eredl pofture, ftrong purges, fupprefied, natural 
or artificial evacuations; falling down of the gut, 
drinking large quantities of watery liquors, grief, ob- 
ftru&ions of the liver, pregnancy, high-living, See. 
Symptoms. The fymptoms of this difeafe being not 
always alike, have made fome variety and diflin&ion 
of it. Thus there is the blind piles, when the tumour 
is not vifible ; the common piles, when tumours ap- 
pear without bleeding; and the bleeding piles, when 
they difeharge blood. However, there are general 
fymptoms which are common to all ; as, a pain and 
fwimming in the head, ftupor, fick ftomach with pains 
in the bowels and back, which frequently precede, 
and in fome cafes a fever alfo: a fenfe of fulnefs and 
itching are the local fymptoms ; thefe are foon reliev- 
ed in the bleeding piles, when that takes place, and 
frequently the eftablifhment of the tumour is attended 
with an alleviation of the fymptoms. 
Sometimes blood only conies away with the flools; 
but at other times a confiderable, conftant difeharge 
alarms the patient. This afifedlion is apt ta return at 
ftated intervals, and to increafe. 
Management, All the caufes as. far as poffible are to 
be avoided, and temperance is ftri&ly to be obferved 
by the plethoric ; light vegetable food, and cool acid 
drinks are proper during the affe&ion. Much atten- 
tion Ihouldbe given to regularity, and efpeciallyin keep- 
ing the bowels in a proper date. In lean patients a 
flannel Ihirt is often nccefl'ary. Cure. It is frequently the cafe, that this difeharge 
is falutary, and therefore a doubt arifes in the- minds 
of fomc people, about administering medicines to 
check it. Hence, whenever the difeharge is fmall, 
and attended with benefit, nothing need be done to 
check it; but whenever it is profufe, it then threat- 
ens a greater injury that it is likely to relieve ; then 
-as well as when it returns often, it fhould be check- 
ed by applying cloths dipped in cold water or vine- 
gar to the neck, hands, thighs, and the part itfelf; 
if this does not relieve it, dip a fponge in alum and 
water, or in a decodlion of galls, and apply it to the 
part, and if neceffary, give twelve grains of ipeca- 
cuana in a little water immediately. When nothing 
but tumours are prefent, and they are painful or 
large, *wafh them with the following walh : to half 
a pint of lead-water add two tea-fpoonfuls of laa- 
danum. 
This may be ufed three or four times a day. Open 
the bowels in all cafes with fulphur, or fulphur and 
cream of tartar, mixed in equal quantities with honey ; 
two tea-fpoonfuls may be taken every two hours : in 
flight cafes this is frequently fufficient alone. 
CHAP. XXXVI, 
IMMODERATE FLOWING OF THE 
MENSES. 
QAUSES. High living, excefs in drink and vene- 
ry, Ihocks from falls, dancing, paffions, neglect- 
ing abftinence in time of menftruating, inflammatory 
fevers, other evacuations checked, coftivenefs, cold 
applied to the feet, frequent mifearnages, difficult la- 
bours, neglecting to nurfe, living too warm, drinking 
much tea or coffee, purging, 8cc. 
Symptoms, An immoderate flowing is ufually preced- 
ed by nead-ach, giddinefs, and difficult breathing, a 
flauddering immediately precedes the difeharge, with this alfo a pain in the back, and feveriffinefs frequent- 
ly attend. • , 
After a large difcharge, a general debility enfues ; 
the pulfe becomes weak, the ftomach fick, refpiration 
difficult upon the leafb motion ; the feet cold and 
fwoln, efpecially towards evening, when a fever takes 
place of the hedlic kind. Palpitations, fainting, fear- 
■fulnefs are not uncommon fymptoms : the whites fre- 
quently follow. 
The above fymptoms take place more or lefs, foon- 
er or later, according to the profufenel's and repetition 
of the difcharge. 
Management. The caufes of this complaint difeover 
to us, that it may take place in two dates of the fyfletn, 
one when it is over-loaded or plethoric, the other when 
it is debilitated; each of which require feparate ma- 
nagement. 
In the former cafe, cold, abftinencs, and cool drinks 
ffiould be ufed with vegetable diet in the intervals : 
in the latter, good nourishing' food, port wine, and ex- 
ercife are to be ufed. In all cafes the caufes are to be 
-removed or obviated ; motion in time of flowing is to 
be (Iridlly avoided. 
Cure. In the intervals the management preferibed 
will be fufficient. 
In the period, the patient fliould be kept cool ; ten 
grains of alum maybe given every half hour; fponges 
dipped in cold vinegar, may be applied to the fmall of 
the back, and to the parts, and if this does not anfwer, 
•ten grains of ipecacuana may be given in a little water; 
after this give ten drops of elixir of vitriol every hour : 
to corredf the laxity that fucceeds, ten grains of ruft 
of iron may be taken four times a-day, and in cafes 
of much debility, the Puruvian bark alfo. 
When the menfes return more frequently, or flow 
more plentifully than natural, the patient fliould be on 
her guard, look for the caufes, and obviate them* CHAP. XXXVII. 
THE WHITES 
QTMPTOMS. A difcharge of whitlfli mucus flows 
inftead of the menfes, or after them, and continues 
longer and longer, till it becomes pretty conflant. 
Treatment. As when this cafe takes place, debility 
is generally prefent, a nourifhing diet may be ufed, 
with port wine and water, more or lefs in proportion 
to the debility, and gentle, regular, exerclfe. 
Cure. The fleet, as recommended above, is one of 
the bed remedies ; with this topical applications Ihould 
be made with a fyringe. Deceptions of Peruvian bark, 
oak-bark, or galls, are proper. 
C H A P. XXXVIII. 
OBSTRUCTED MENSES. 
Cold is one of the mod common caufes, 
either when applied to the body during menflrua- 
tion, or when it has at a preceding time brought on 
•the complaint called a cold; difeafes of much pain or 
aPlion in other parts, debility, exceffive evacuations, 
low paffions of the mind, are alfo caufes. 
As the dlforder is fo well marked, I need not men- 
tion the fymptoms that enfue in thofe who have once 
had the menfes, but {hall confine myfelf to the fyjrnp- 
toms that take place in girls who have never had them, 
although they have paffed over the proper time. This 
is called properly a retention of the menfes. 
The patient after the age of thirteen, but how long 
after is uncertain, is affedted with a lofs of appetite, 
lluggifhnefs, laffitude, and debility ; the countenance 
becomes pale or fwarthy, and the body universally 
flaccid, the legs fwell, efpeclally at night, and the bel- 
ly lemetimes Swells alfo, whilfl pains affedt the head, back, and other parts: refplration is generally labo- 
rious. 
Matiagement, It is clear, that neither the manage- 
ment nor the cure can be conducted on a fmgle plan : 
In the plethoric, and thofe who have cold as a caufe, 
low diet fhould be preferihed, with thin drinks, cool 
air, and red : but in thofe emaciated, noufifixing food, 
wine and exercife fhould be drenuoufly enforced. 
Cure. In thole of the former cafe, that is, thofe 
who arc full of blood, or have much remaining drength, 
perhaps nothing will relieve fooner than blood-letting ; 
with this falts may be ufed, and if the menfes do not 
return at theufual period, at that very junClure let the 
patient take four grains of calomel, and as many of 
aloes, in a little honey, and repeat the dofe next night 
if neceffary. Thofe w.ho are emaciated, or have a 
retention, fhould take ten grains of deel every fix 
hours, and a couple of dofes of hark daily, till the 
period arrives; and then, if neceffary, take the ho- 
lufes as direded. A deth'dlloA of madder has been 
often ufed with fucccfs. 
CHAP. XXXIX, 
VOMITING OF BLOOD, 
ObftruAecl menfes, and other evacuations 
fuppreffed; enlargement of the fpleen or liver, ero- 
fions of the ftoraach by poifons, fmall giafs, Stc. and 
violent draining to vomit. 
Symptoms. Some pain about the domach, anxiety 
and vomiting of black grumous blood, without cough*- 
ing. : 
Management, The patient who is fubje£t to this, 
fhould live regularly and abdemioufly, and endeavour 
by every means to counteract fuch caufes as admit of 
afiiftance, and ule proper medicines for the fame pur- 
pofe. In time of a difeharge, the patient fhould retire 
from all clofe places, into cool and frefh air. Cure. Whatever may be the caufe, we are to ufe 
the fame means to ftop an exceflive dlfcharge. Bolides 
the treatment mentioned before, we may ufe gentle 
aftring-ent medicines, as ten grains of alum diffolved in 
water, every half hour, till the vomiting has ceafed 
foms time ; after which a decoftlo'rt of oak fcaik may 
be ufed for fenr days, in the fame quantity, and made 
in the fame manner as the decoction No. 3. 
When an enlargement cf the fplecn or liver is the 
caufe, little hope remains of a cure ; but the patient 
Humid not negleft to try the Virginia fulphur fprings, 
which are very powerful deobftruents. When fug- 
preffed evacuations are the caufe, the means directed 
for them Ihould be adminiftered; when ac.ids have been 
taken into the ftomach, they Ihould be changed if pof- 
nble, by their proper antidotes, or enveloped in fome 
mild rrfucilage, as mucilage cf gtim arabic, or In oil, 
■or fyrups. When vomiting is tile caufe, a few drops 
of laudanum in mint water, will put a Hop to it. 
C PI A P. XL. 
DISCHARGE OE BLOOD FROM THE 
URINARY PASSAGE. 
The pa Cage of a ftone, hard riding, 
blows on the final 1 of the back, fappreffion of the 
piles, acrid medicines, as cantharldes taken internalize, 
or abforbed from a blifter, or fome putrid c.fcafes, as 
the confluent fmall pox. 
Symptoms. A quantity of red or coffee coloured 
blacklfh urine is dii'charged, fometimes with pieces of 
clodded blood, like a worm, fometimes the blood Is 
eiffufed-through the urine, and remains fo; at other 
times’ it is depofited in. the bottom of the pot; ibme- 
times much pain attend:, as when a ftone is palling 
along the ureters, at other times there is none. 
Management. The patient is to be advifed to lay 
In a reclined poftnre, and to avoid all ftimulating meats 
and drinks j the cables' are to be removed, before a cure can be expected. Barley, rice, panada, gruel, 
puddings, and things of this fort, are to be his nourilh- 
ment. 
Cure. A plenty of mucilaginous drinks are to be 
uied, as barley water, ffaxfeed tea, mucilage of gum 
arable, mallow tea, Etc. and if the difcharge continues, 
alum whey may be ufed. In the cafe of putrid dif. 
eafes, vitriol and bark are to be adminidered freely. 
C H A P. XLI. 
COLD. 
£AUSE. Cold applied partially or generally to the 
body, cfpecially after an increafe cf heat. 
Symptoms. It frequently makes its appearance with 
a difficulty of breathing through the nodi ils, a fenfe 
cf fulnefs and ftoppagc there ; this is followed with a 
pain in the forehead, diffiiefs and rednefs of the eyes 
and difcharge from the nofe. When the afFedlion is any 
4>rorfe, the patient is fubjedf to chills and feverlffmefs, 
which is confiderable towards evening, a hoarfenefs, 
fore throat, cough, flying or fixed pains of different 
parts, and not unfrequently feme difficulty of refpiring. 
The cough in the beginning is ufually dry, but as 
the other fymptoms give way, it becomes moift, more 
eafy, and attended with a difcharge of whltifh or yel- 
low mucus, which is mod frequent; this goes off 
at different periods, according to the patient’s age, 
date, etc. 
Management. The patient fhould confine himfelf to 
the houfe, in a temperate room, and live upon vege- 
tables and cool acid mucilaginous drinks, as barley wa- 
ter or flaxfeed tea fweetened, and acidulated with 
lemon juice or vinegar. 
Cure. If the feverlffmefs and difficulty of breath- 
ing are confiderable, bleeding (hould not be omitted j 
with or without this, a dofe of falts fhould be taken, 
after which fweating fhould be praftifed ; one of the 
powders No. I. may be given every hour, waffling it 
down with warm whey or tea 5 or indead of thefc, ten drops of antimonial wine, and as many of paregoric 
every half hour for eight or ten times. The latter is a 
good medicine to take every night to lull the cough, 
for this purpofe, thirty drops of the wine, and fixty 
of the elixir may be taken, when the patient is difpoi- 
cd to reft. 
If pains remain in the head, a blifter to the temples 
is the fureft relief; if in the limbs, a tea-fpoonful of 
the volatile or fimple tindlure of guaiacum may be tak- 
en two or three times a-day, in a little water. Riding 
in good weather, or failing, is of great fcrvice as 
loon as the patient can go about. 
CHAP. XLIL 
INFLUENZA. 
THE caufe of this is a fpecific contagion, proceed- 
ing from fome very general alteration in the air. 
There is no doubt of its being communicated from one 
perfon to another. 
Symptoms. The moft common fymptoms are thefe 
of the common cold deferibed above, attacking a whole 
town or neighbourhood at once. But that is not its 
conftant form ; for fometimes it puts on the appearance 
of a pleurify, with a llrong pulfe, at other times a 
pain in the fide with a weak pulfe, whilft in a third 
cafe it has produced all the fymptoms of a low nervous 
fever. 
Management. This is in general to be dire&ed as 
in the common cold: but when it has the form of a 
low fever, wine and water Ibouldbe the conftant drink. 
Cure. In fome of the moft violent cafes, efpecially 
when the patient’s habit has been full, it has been ne- 
ceffary and ufeful to bleed, and blifter the pained 
part; this latter need never be negleiltd, where the 
pain is fixed. Vomits of ipecacuana, antimonial wine, 
or tartar, are always ferviceable, and interrupt the 
diforder fooner than any other medicine. Gentle fweat- mg with whey, and a little antimonial wine is never 
to be neghdded. This is to be tiled after vomiting, 
when that is intended. 
The bowels fhould be kept regular by fmall doles 
of caldor od, Glauber falts, cream of tartar, or jalap. 
When the cough is troublcfome, fvrup of fcuills may 
be ufcd, one tea-fpoonfu! every three hours, j or what 
in fome cafes anfwers bette/, the following mixture: 
paregoric elixir one tea-fpoonful, antlmonial wine 
twenty drops; this may be‘taken twice or three times, 
in the courie of a day. Honey and vinegar boiled to- 
gether, fpermaceti and loaf fugar, extraCd of liquo- 
rice, Sec. are frequently ufefui to take in the mouth 
every quarter of an hour. 
In the caie ol alow fever, wine and bark are to be 
given freely, after giving, a gentle dofe of ipecacuana. 
It the ftomach refufes bark, elixir of vitriol is to be 
ufcd in its Head, tenor fifteen drops every hour. 
Riding or failing is here as ufefui as in the former cafe. 
C H A P. XLIII, 
i'LUX 
QTMFTGMS. Sometimes a fever makes the at- 
tach, at other times the bowels are primarily af- 
fedded; firld, with coldivenefs and flatulency, then with 
gripes and frequent painful efforts to ftool, when no- 
thing of a natural fort is discharged, but flime of a 
whitilh, bloody, or blackiih colour, iu coniiderable 
quantities. 
In fome few inftances a lax has preceded. What- 
ever is voided of the natural kind, is generally in fmall 
hard balls. 
The idomach in general is difordered, and that from 
the beginning: but it goes off as the complaintproceeds 
downwards, which it generally does, till all is fixed in 
the lower end of the laid gut, where it produces that 
troublefome effort cf it, called teneiinus. The feverifi^. fymptotns continue a confiderable time, remitting and 
then acceding again. 
Whenever the difeafe takes a putrid turn, which it 
is apt to do, it may be known by the foetor and hlack- 
nefs of the dilcharges, a lownefs of the pulfe and gene- 
ral debility. 
Management. Great attention fliould be paid to 
cleanlinefs, by removing the chamber furniture, and 
Ihifting the bed clothes often; the patient Ihould live 
upon digeftiblc vegetables, as rice, barley, £tc. and 
milk preparations, as thickened milk, light puddings, 
chicken water, and light broths may allb be ufed, 
if the patient is fond of them. And for drinks, teas, 
jelly and water, and apple water ; which may be taken 
milk warm. 
Cure. To procure regular natural ftools, is half 
the cure ; for which purpofe, a table-fpoonful of caf- 
ter oil is to be given every hour, till it produces that 
eflfeft ; this may be repeated every other day, forfeve- 
ral times, as the patient may require; after this, if 
the patient is very Tick, eight grains of ipecacuana 
may be given ; after which two grains of ipecacuana 
may be adminiftered every two hours, fo as not to in- 
terfere with taking the oil, as long as the fever lads. 
After the ufe of thefe medicines for fome time, lauda- 
num may be given to relieve the pain, fifteen drops 
morning and night, mixed up with two grains of 
ipecacuana. 
If the above medicines are not handy, or if there is 
any objedfion to them, the following may be ufed ; a 
dole of falts and manna, once or twice in the begin- 
ning, after which, put two grains of tartar emetic, or 
a table-fpoonful of antimonial wine in a quart of ap- 
ple tea, and take it in fmall quantities, every quarter 
of an hour, fo as to confume the whole in a day: 
after taking it till the fever is removed, then ufe the 
laudanum. When the complaint has a putrid turn, as 
well as to remove the debility after a common cafe, 
twelve grains of columbo root fliould be taken every 
two or three hours. If the difeafe leaves a loofenefs, a decoction of log- 
wood or tormentil fhould be ufed. 
CHAP. XLIV. 
APOPLEXY. 
THIS diforder mod commonly attacks the aged, 
Inch as have large heads, fhort necks, corpu- 
lent habits, and indolent difpofitions, who have fed 
high, and ufed much ftrong drink. If, in addition 
to thefe, they have had a fuppreffion of any evacua- 
tion, as the piles, they can foarce expedl to efcape an 
apoplexy. 
Symptoms• Sometimes a head-ach and fwi mining of 
the eyes, with other affedUons of the head precede ; 
at other times, it fuddenly attacks the patient as he 
reclines his head, or makes fome effort, with a lofs of 
internal and external fenfe, an almoft total deprivation 
of voluntary motion. The patient’s face often becomes 
fluffed and fwoln, his. eyes red, his pulfe full and flow, 
his breathing fomewhat difficult, with Inoring. 
The time that this ftate lafts, is uncertain; fome- 
times the patient comes to his fenfes in a few hours, 
w ith a vomiting and fweat, at other times he lays days, 
and frequently never recovers. 
Management. The patient fhould be Hid on a bed 
with his head raifed as high as it conveniently can: his 
neck-cloth fhould he dripped off, and he fhould be 
placed in a cool room. If the fit continues long, a 
little water may be poured down his throat, if pcfflble, 
twice or three times a-day, when he is on the reco- 
very, his diet fhould be as light as poffible. 
There are fome cafes which may be termed apoplexy, 
which demand treatment only from the furgeon, as 
when it depends upon a fradture of the fkull. 
Cure. The patient fhould be bled as freely as his 
confutation will allow: this may be dons at different times rather than at once. After bleeding, a clyfter, 
of Caftile foap, diilblved in water, fhoukl be given, 
one drachm of foap to a pint of water, or inftead of 
that, two table-fpoonfuls of antimonial wine in as 
much water. Thefe may be uled every fix hours, for 
feveral times. 
If thefe do not bring him to himfelf, a large blifler 
fiiould be applied to the back of his neck, and fma- 
pifms made of muftard, vinegar, and crumbs of bread, 
applied to the foies of his feet. As loon as the pati- 
ent is able to fwallow a pill, fix grains of aloes, and as 
much foap made into a bclus or pills, fhould be giv- 
en him every day, fo as to keep his bowels in regular 
motion. 
. Gentle exercife (liould foon be ufed, and increafed 
till the patient is perfectly well: proper exercife and 
abftinence are the only fecurities againft a return. 
When the diforder ends In a pally, which it fometimes 
does, the cure directed forpalfy is to be followed. 
Lethargy and Coma. which are fpecies of this difor- 
der, are to be treated in the fame way, having refpedt 
to the degree of the diforder and the patient’s habit, 
and directing the evacuations in proportion to them. 
CHAP. XLV. 
PALSY. 
£JAUSES. Compredion of a nerve in its origin or 
courfe, certain narcotics taken internally, exhala- 
tions from lead and arfenic in their preparations, ex- 
tedive venery, old age, esc. 
Symptoms. A lofs of fenfation or ability of motion 
in the part alfecled, which is fometimes one half of the 
patient,, as the rig'ht fide, or from the hips down- 
wards ; at other times, qnly a fmall part is affected, 
as the hand, the arm, the leg. 
Management. This is to be according to the pati- 
ent’s habit; If he is full, a low diet is to he ufcd j if be is low, a ftimnlating diet and fpirituous drinks 
fhould be ufed. The caufes are, if pofllble, to be 
removed. 
Cure, In full habits it is often neceffan.' to purge 
with jalap, or aloes, and fometimes even to let blood; 
when thefe have been ufed, and likewife when th.ey 
have not been neceffary, fiimulating medicines are to 
be ufed. A table-fpoonful of muftard-feed may be the 
firft, which will give the patient a gentle vomiting; 
after this, any of the following may be tried, as they 
may bell: fuit: from one to two tca-fpoonfuls of vola- 
tile timfture of guaiacum in water, three times a-day; 
or ten drops of tinfhire of cantharides, three times 
a-dav in broth or mucilage; ten drops of fpirit of tur- 
pentine in honey, three times a-day ; infufions of horfe- 
radilh and muftard ; electricity ; frictions ; external 
applications of fpirit of fal ammoniac and oil ; appli- 
cations of flies, made by putting a lump of blifter- 
plaider to twice as much common wax and oil plaifter ;• 
and laftly, by drinking the water of Berkley fprings, 
which is probably as effectual as any. 
C.H A P. XLVI 
FAINTING. 
QAUSES. ExcdTive exertions, heat, large evacuati- 
ons, excefiive paffions, as leal-, anger, joy, See. fud- 
denly depriving the body of any comprcllion, diften- 
fion, or pain, that it has been for feme time accu'lom-- 
ed to, violent pain, affeftions of the ftoriiaeh, dilagree- 
able fmehs, fights, &c. 
Symptoms. Sometimes a langour, an anxiety, a gid- 
dinefs and dimnefs precede : at ether times the faint- 
ing comes on fuddenly ; the patient turns pale, finks 
away, and appears dead; the pulfe being either im- 
perceptible, or very low ; the breathing in the fame 
(late. 
A cold fweat often breaks out, and Hands in drops 
upon the patient’s forehead, which is as cold as u corpfe. After lying a few minutes in that date, tha 
patient begins to recover, and vomits, or is lick at 
the domach. 
Management. The patient fhould be laid out on a. 
hard bed, la a dream of cool air. If the caufe re- 
quires attention, it is to be removed as quick as pof- 
lible. . 
Cure. The patient diould have his face fprinkled 
with cold water, and his hands, arms, and legs rub- 
bed in the direction of the circulation, that is, towards 
the heart. Hartfhorn fhould bp applied to the nofe 
and temples, and twenty or thirty drops given inter- 
nally. As foon as the patient begins to recover, a lit- 
tle good wine fhould be given him, and if much debi- 
lity remains afterwards, it fhould be removed by bark. 
CHAP. XLVII. 
DYSPEPSY, OR CONFIRMED 
INDIGESTION. 
Q4USZS' The large ,ufe of coffee, tea, or any warm 
watery drinks; of tobacco, ardent fpirits, opium, 
bitters, fpicss, and acids; putrefcent food, over-eat- 
ing, frequent unnecelTary vomiting or purging : fomc 
diforders, as intermittent fevers, fluxes, See. An indo- 
lent life, much application of mind, exceflive venery, 
long expofure, without exercife, to' cold mold air. 
Symptoms. The great variety of fymptoms in this 
affedtion together with the caufes, is the reafon that 
no two perlbns are identically alike affected; but ne- 
verthelefs the general or fundamental fymptoms are al- 
ways alike ; thefe I {hall let down : a lot's of appetite, 
diftenlions of the domach with wind, eradiations after 
eating efpecially, heart-burns, lometimes a vomiting, 
frequent pains about the llomach, and often a dejedled 
mind. 
Management. Avoid all the caufes, ufe the mod di- 
gedible meat in finall quantities at a time, avoid all Ratulent vegetables. ufe wine and water, brandy and 
water, or porter, if it will fit well on the ftomach % 
ufc gentle, conftant, and varied exercife, taking care 
Xo avoid expefure in cold or damp weather. 
Cure. This is either palliative or radical ; the lat- 
ter is not to be expedled in a Ihort time, nor at all 
unlefs with great attention. 
The palliative confifts in removing the prefent dif- 
agreeable feelings from time to time. 
The molt troublefome fymptoms are the wind and 
acid on the ftomach, and the cofiivenefs : for the wind 
and acid, a little magnefia, chalk or lime-water, with 
feme eflcnce of mint, fhould be taken cccafionally. 
Tor the cofiivenefs, the patient fhould be provided 
with a box of pills made with jalap or rhubarb ; or 
with extract of white walnut bark, thefe may be taken 
occafionally ; riding over agreeable country feats, is one 
of the moft t fie (final remedies agalnft a dejedted mind. 
For the radical cure, wc are to attempt the remo\al 
tf the debility in the fibres of the ftomach ; for wThixh 
purpofe the waters of Berkley fprings, or of any cha- 
lybeate fprings, are the moft promifing : when thefe 
cannot be ufed, any of the following medicines may 
be ufed, as ftiall bell fuit. Half a wine glafs full three 
times a day, of the tindlure No. 7. or two tea-fpocn- 
fuls of No. 8. in a little water, or in fpirit and water, 
three times a day; or twelve grains of Colombo root, 
three or four times a day ; or a table-fpoonful of the 
tindlure cf bark, No. 4. three times a-clay. 
CHAP. XL VIII. 
LOCKED JAW. 
£AUSES. Sudden application of cold to the body 
when warm and much relaxed ; lacerations of the 
tendons or nerves of the foot, and of feme other parts; 
expofure of the mufclcs to the air, after the fkin has 
been taken off by a gangrene or othenvife. Symptoms. A ftiffnefs of the lower jaw, and pains 
about the bread and back generally precede, and in. 
creafe till the jaw becomes firmly doled, and the muf- 
cles of the back, or of the fore parts, are violently con- 
ftrldfed fo as to bend the patient into a bow; after this 
Hate has continued for fome time, he is lei zed with con- 
Tulfions, in which he is generally carried off. 
Management. If any lubftance is lodged in the parts 
primarily affe&ed, it Ihould be removed immediately ; 
the patient Ihould be kept warm, and fed upon iuch 
food as can be got down. In fome cafes, it would be 
advifeable to draw a lower tooth, to make a palfage for 
the food ; wine and water is the mod proper drink. 
Cure. It will be proper to remove a toe, or any 
fmall part, if that be the place of the wound, and to 
drefs this, or whatever part may be hurt, with a ftrong 
fuppurating i'alve, as bafilicon (which is compofed of 
roiin and wax, with a fufhciency of oil to foften it) hav- 
ing firft fprinkled it with red precipitate : or if theie 
things are not to be had, a little warm oil of turpentine. 
The patient’s bowels fhould be opened with caftor 
oil, or with jalap, and kept open; after this he Ihould 
have one drachm of ftrong mercurial ointment rubbed 
into his thighs and arms, morning, noon, and night, 
till he fpits freely: after this it may be ufed every ether 
day, lb as juft to keep up a fpitting for a week or more, 
if the fymptoms continue. A pill of one grain of opi- 
um may be given frequently to eafe the pain. If the 
patient grows weak, he Ihould take the bark as fre- 
quently as he pofllbly can, and in as great quantities 
as his ftomach will bear, without railing his pulfe too 
much. It will be proper to continue the medicines in 
fmaller quantities, for fome time after the affedlion has 
gone off. 
If the fore is brought in the beginning to fuppurate, 
the locked jaw need not be feared. CHAP. XLI&. 
EPILEPSY, OR COMMON FITS. 
AUSES. Wounds, and bony protuberances of the 
Ikull; olfification of the membranes of the brain: 
acrimony of the* fluids from contagion, degeneracy, 
See. pillions, as anger, fear ; Prong- imagination of 
difagrfeeable objeefs, and the fight of fucb, congef- 
tlons of blood in the brain, produced by a plethoric 
Pate, by long continued fun-heat on tire head ; by In- 
toxication, furfeit, See. irritations proceeding from 
-wornls : teething ; fplinters in the fiefh ; fractured 
bones; Pones in the kidney; the matter of ulcers; 
poifons, See. and laPly, large evacuations of blood. 
It will readily appear, that many ,cf the above cauf- 
cs do not produce fits generally ; and hence there muft 
be a predifpofitioh in thofe, in whom they will occa- 
fioit them. A predifpofition confiPs either in a great 
mobility of the mufcular fyftem, or in a relaxed Pate 
of the vends of the brain, which allows, of their being 
eafily forced beyond their power, and admitting of 
eongePion. 
Symptoms, Sometimes the patient feels indifpofetj 
for fome time before the attack, with head-ach, gid- 
dinefs, fulnefs of the head, fluggilhnefs, See. at other 
times the fit attacks without warning ; the perfon falls 
down, and is variouPy agitated, fometimes one fide 
more than the other ; his tongue is often thnrp cut of 
his mouth, and by that means is bit almoft or quite 
tlirough : after continuing fome minutes in this Pate, 
his convulfions ceafe, and he lies fome time in a fleepy 
Pate, and then returns to himfelf, not knowing what 
has paPcd. 
Management. It will be proper to held the patient, 
fo as to keep him from hurting himfelf, and to put a 
piece of thick leather between his teeth, to keep him 
from injuring- his tongue. It is feldom or never necef- 
fary to preferibe any diet for the patient, except in “the Intervals, when it Is to be Anted to his Hate. If 
fulnefs is the caufe of the fits, or he is of a full habit, 
a low vegetable diet, with hard exercife, lliould be 
ufed ; but for a contrary ftate, a nourifliing diet and 
conftant gentle exercife is to be ufed. The caufes 
Humid, if pofiible, be removed by operations or medi- 
dicines fuited to the caufe. 
Cure. In full habits, a bleeding will be proper 
during the fit, or preceding it. However, if they fre- 
quently return, it will not do to bleed every time, brit 
give a dole of falts in its {lead, at the time the patient 
experts the return. Befides this, very little can be done, 
except to adhere ftriftly to the management dire&ed, 
and to have an ilfue put in the back of the neck. 
In thofe of thin habits, when fits return 
quickly after one and the other, that is in one day, it 
will be proper to give twenty drops of laudanum ; to 
have him bathed in warm water, and a warm milk and 
water clyfter Injedled two or three times a day. All 
this may be repeated if neceffary, in fix or eight hours 
after. 
But the chief thing confifts in removing the mobility 
or irritability mentioned in the caufe. For this, bark, 
Heel, and the cold bath are proper ; they Ihould be 
ufed a long while, with proper exercife and diet. In 
fits proceeding from fome of the above caufes, as from 
irritations, the removal of the caufe is all that is re- 
quired. But it is lamentable, that fome of the caufes 
cannot be removed; as that from bony protuberances 
into the brain, £cc. for fuch there is no remedy. But it 
is very probable, that the number of fits will be greatly 
leffened by temperance, and avoiding- extremes on 
cither hand. C H A P. L. 
St. VITUS’s DANCE. 
THIS is a convulfive afledlion, partly under the 
influence of the will : It affcfts the patient’s leg 
or arm, ot both. It makes him limp along, and in 
taking a cup of water, or applying it to his mouth, he 
ufually performs fome uncommon jeftures, carrying it 
quickly one way and then another, before he gets it to 
his mouth. It is apt to terminate in palfy. Children 
from eight to twelve are the fubjedls of it. 
Cure. The patient fhould live fparingly, and be 
purged if he is full. Befides this, cold bathing and a 
vomit of ipecacuana, taken two or three times, will be 
of fervice. Sometimes cledlricity is of fervice. 
CHAP. LI. 
PALPITATION OF THE HEART. 
IT is not when this is a fymptom, but only when 
it is a primary affedlion, that it belongs to this head. 
CAUSES. Obftrudtions in the large blood-veffels, 
exceflive irritability or mobility of the heart, aflfedlions 
of the mind, and exceflive evacuations. 
Management. The patient fhould live on a nourifh- 
ing diet, if he is weak habitually, or has been weaken- 
ed by diforder; much motion, fudden (tarts, (training, 
and all expofure ihould be avoided. 
Cure. When it is certain that an obflrudtlon in 
the large veflels is the caufe, there can be no cure 
expedted, only palliative, and that by avoiding all ex- 
cels and extremes. , 
In the other cafes, (Irengthening the habit with 
bark, fteel, wine, and gentle riding, are what will 
prove effedtual to remove it j and fora temporary me- dicine, pills of affafoetida, or a few drops of laudamujt 
may be ui’ed. 
CHAP. LII 
ASTHMA. 
BY this I do not mean every difficulty of breath- 
ing', but only that which returns periodically, de- 
pending upon a certain peculiar conftitution of the 
lungs. It ufually ohferves the changes of weather in 
its returns, and fcldom or never goes off entirely. 
Symptoms. It often begins with a tightnefs acrofs 
the bread, flatulency, and impediment in refpiration, 
which continues until the patient can fcarcely get fuf- 
flcient breath to live. Sometimes a large quantity of 
frothy fpit is difcharged, at other times little or none. 
Whenever any phlegm is difcharged, which the patient 
generally makes many efforts to do, it is attended with 
relief. 
Management. The patient fhould ufe light food, 
fuch as will not produce flatulency : his drink fhould 
be of the cooling kind. 
He fhould be In a place where there is a free ad- 
miffion of air, yet not expoled to cold. 
Cure. A vomit of ipecacuana fhould be given in 
the beginning ; after which twenty drops of laudanum 
in a little mint water ; this may be repeated in fix or 
eight hours if necefTary. 
The bowels fhould be immediately opened, and kept 
open with common clyfiers. 
If much fever attends the aflhma, it may be proper 
to take away fome blood, if the patient is fufficiently 
able to bear it; and alio to lay a blifter 'to the back. 
Gentle riding is proper, after the fit has pafled over. 
As tea and coffee are fuppofed to be injurious to afth- 
matics, they may ufe milk and water in their dead. C H A P. LIII. 
HOOPING COUGH, 
often begins like a common cold, but pro- 
JL coeds on till the cough becomes more like a con- 
vnlfion; the patient’s breath is lb foretd out of his 
Jungs, that it returns with a -whizzing or hoop ; after 
which he often pukes, and finds relief. After fome 
time there is a confiderable difeharge of mucus. 
Management. The patient, if full, fhould live on a 
low diet for fome time ; milk in its various prepara- 
tions is proper, and fhould form the chief of the pa- 
tient’s diet. Gentle riding is of fervice in good weather. 
Cure. Gentle pukes of ipecacuana, or tartar eme- 
tic, Ihculd be given every two or three days for feve- 
ral times : after which, fmall doles of antiraonial wine 
every night: the bowels fhould be open with 
cream of tartar, or jalap. When the cough has con- 
tinued for fome time, and the patient grows weak, he 
fhould take bark dally. 
, AJi-lftsr ii fo.'.lwinicS Decenary, when the patient's 
breathing becomes much interrupted, or when the re-, 
turns of coughing are violent and frequent. 
CHAP. LIV, 
COLIC. 
f'.lUSES. Csflivenefs, cold applied to the belly or 
feet, indigeft hie food, acrids, See. 
Sjnibt&nis. Pain in the belly, ufually about the na- 
vd, with coftivenefs, flatulency, and often vomiting. 
Cure. When much fever attends, it will be prudent 
to bleed, but when there is nothing but a quick or 
frequent pulfe, we need not order bleeding, but endea- 
vour to open the bowels with a common clyHer, or 
with a Ipoouful of caftor oil given every three hours, till it operates; after which ten drops of laudanum may 
be given in fome mint water, every hour, for four 
times if neceffary. If the pain does not abate for this, 
the patient Ihould be put into a tub of warm water for 
half an hour. 
Jf the llomach does not bear the oil, let the patient 
take a quarter of an ounce of cream of tartar, and fif- 
teen or twenty grains of jalap. The opening medi- 
cines fliould be often repeated in lefs dofes, to prevent 
a relapfe, and remove the coftivenefs, which the lauda- 
num occafions ; falts and manna, or manna and fenna, 
are alfo very good purges. 
The patient fhould ufe riding*, to prevent returns, 
and avoid all food that has a tendency to flatulency, or 
to produce coftivenefs. 
CHAP. LV. 
CHOLERA MORBUS, OR VOMITING AND 
PURGING OF BILE. 
THIS violent diforder happens at the end of fain- 
mer, ufually after loading the ftomach with acid 
fruits. 
Cure. The patient fhould take large dofes of ca- 
momile, or balm, or fage tea, to wafh out the fto- 
mach ; after which he (hould take ten drops of lauda- 
num, in fome mint or cinnamon water every half hour, 
for five or fix times if neceiTary. If this does not have 
the defired effeft, a blifter fhould be laid on the breaft, 
and a large bundle of mint, Hewed in wine or fpirit, 
laid over and about it. The patient Ihould be kept as 
warm as he can, fo as not to be difagreeable. Great 
care fhould be taken to avoid the night air, and acid 
fruits, which rather promote the fecretion of bile, 
than correct it when fecreted. 
This fame diforder, with very little variety, is very 
common to children in large towns. They fhould be 
immediately carried out into the country air, without waiting for an alteration of the diforder, and alfo dipt 
in water frefh from the well. For a medicine, they 
may have, if live years old, thirty drops of laudanum 
put into half of the mixture No. 2. One tea-fpoonful 
cl tins and one of weak mint wafer, may be taken eve- 
ry half hour, for three or four times : the m'-nt as 
above may be immediately applied to the ftomach; but 
the chief dependence is to be put in port wine, given 
every hour, and increasing the dofe; one tea-fpoonful 
is enough to begin with. After the dlforder has gone 
oil, bark or coiumbo, fhould be taken to flrengthen 
the ftomach. 
C FI A P. LVI. 
LAX, OR LOOSENESS 
£AUSES. Over-eating, bad food or water, large 
quantities of fweets or acids, poifons, over-purg- 
ing, bile in the fummer time, matter difcharged into 
the inteftines, cold applied to the belly or feet, teeth- 
ing, palTions of the mind, &x. 
Management. The caufes as far as pofhble fliould be 
removed, the patient fliould avoid damp or cold ai* 
by dreffing warm, as with flannel next the flan; all 
focd that has a laxative quality, fliould be avoided. 
Sago, rice, milk, eggs, light broths, and digeftible 
meats fliould be ufed ; for drink, wine and water, and 
warm teas, are proper, as fage, balm, mint, &c. 
Cure. To perform this, we fliould keep up a free 
perfpiration, by giving three times a day, half a grain 
of opium, with one grain of ipecacuana: let the pa- 
tient lie down for one hour after taking this. After 
Ailing this prefcription for fome days, aflrlngents are 
to be ufed, as ten or fifteen grains of tormentil root 
twice a-day, or thirty grains of gum kino twice a-day, 
or oak bark, made into a decodfion, and ufed in the 
fame quantities as the Peruvian bark, or fix grains of 
alum every two hours. CHAP, LVII. 
HYSTERICS 
QAUSES. Paffions of the mind, especially grief, 
large evacuations, obftrufted menfes, great irregu- 
larities of any kind. Thefe fcarce ever fail to bring 
it on, In thole fubjefl or predifpofed to it. 
Symptoms. Some diforder is generally felt in the bel- 
ly, which is fucceeded by the fenfation of a ball rifing 
up till it gets fixed in the throat : with this, the pa- 
tient Is alfo writhed to and fro by convulfions, which 
ceaie after fome minutes, to return again. In the 
intervals, the patient fometlmes lies in a fleepy ftate, 
at other times comes to herfelf and talks. In this 
manner they continue for fome time. 
Management. The patient fliould be kept from 
hurting herfelf during the fit; her food fliould be of 
the lighteft kinds. If fhe is full, nothing but water 
drinks fhould be ufed, but if other wife, fhe ihould have 
wine and water : exercife is of material confecpience 
to prevent relapfes. 
Cure. When the patient is of a full habit, or when 
the affeflion proceeds from obftrudled menfes (pro- 
vided this does not proceed from debility) fome blood 
fliould be taken away, after which the bowels fliould 
be opened with a common clyfter. If the convulfions 
ftill continue, ten drops of laudanum Ihould be given 
in fome fage tea, or mint water, which may be repeat- 
ed three or four times if neceflary. In lean patients, a 
tea-fpoonful of the timfture of aflatcetida given three or 
four times a day, is what is generally ufed ; fometlmes 
a iinail puke of ipecacuana will put an end to the fits. 
Thofe who are in this latter cafe, fliould ufe bark, fteel, 
or bitters, with a nourifhing diet, and gentle exercife, 
to prevent returns ; whilft thofe who are in the con- 
trary ftate, fliould live abftemioufly, keep their bowels 
open, and ufe much exercife. CHAP. LVIII 
BITE OF A MAD DOG 
£TMPT0 MS. The wound fefters, and after fome 
time, feldom under a week or two, the patient be- 
comes languid and dejedfed. He then begins to dread 
water, and cannot fwallow it without great agonies 
and convullions of the face: after fome time he cannot 
bear the fight of it. He dozes, and every now and 
then darts from his dumber ; and fometimes raves fo 
as to need confinement. 
Cure. The wound (hould be cut out, if it is on a 
part that admits of it ; if not, let it be filled with gun 
powder, and this burned; after which it Ihould be 
kept open for a month, by fprinkling it with red pre- 
cipitate, and deeding it with a falve made with wax, 
oil and rofin. But if this has been negledled, there is 
no way left, but to falivate the patient, by rubbing 
one drachm of mercurial ointment on him every fix 
hours till he fpits freely ; after which it may be applied 
every other night, fo as to keep up a plentiful fpitting 
for a week or ten days. This, if done in time, will 
often prevent the aftedlion. 
CHAP. LIX. 
DROPSY. 
AUSES. Obftrudlions of the liver, compreffion of 
the blood-veffcls from any caufe, large evacuations, 
fuppreffed natural evacuations, cold and moillure long 
applied, hard drinking, general debility, particular 
debility of what is called the lymphatic fyllem, rup- 
ture of a lymphatic, &x. 
Symptoms. A fuppreffion of urine, drought, fwelling 
of the belly, or the body in general, which ufually re- 
tains the impreilion of the finger ; towards the end, fe- vers come on with a loofenefs, which puts a period 
to the patient’s miferable life. 
Management. The patient (hould live upon light di- 
geftible food, and obferve the greatell regularity : his 
drink (hould be wine and water, if he is thin or debili- 
tated : gentle exercife {hould be conftantly ufed. 
Cure. It will be very well in the beginning, if the 
patient’s date admits of it, to give two or three final! 
purges, computed of twenty grains of jalap, with a 
quarter of an ounce of cream of tartar: if this does not 
anfwer, we {hould try medicines that promote the uri- 
nary fecretion ; for which purpofe two grains of pow- 
dered fquills may be given, twice a-day, or half an 
ounce of cream of tartar dilftdved in a quart of water, 
maybe taken in the courfe of the morning. An infa- 
fiou of horfe-radilh and garlic, in fpirit, has been fome- 
times of tife ; alfo {bong cider, iron flakes, and muf- 
tard-feed put together. 
From ten to twenty drops of an infufion of tobacco, 
in a little mint-water, twice a-day, have been ufed 
with fuceefs; alfo a tea-lpoonful of falt-petre in a lit- 
tle gin, twite a day. 
If none of the above medicines have the delired ef- 
fect, there is but little chance of a recovery. Hpwever, 
after every thing elfe has been tried to no purpofe, 
rubbing the belly, when the dropfy affects that part, 
with warm oil for a long while, e\er-y day, before a fire, 
has proved effectual. 
Bitters and fleel are always ufeful, and {hould be 
taken with the other medicines, only at another hour. 
There is a kind of dropfy, which affeCts only the ca- 
vity of the bread, which is know'n by the noife the 
water makes, when the patient turns over ; by its af- 
fecting the pulfe fp as to make it irregular in its ftrokes ; 
by its affedting the refpiration, and dlfturbing the pa- 
tient in the night with a fenfation of oppreffion. It 
is to be treated as the other dropaes. CHAP. LX. 
RICKETS. 
CTMPTOMS. It rqakes its appearance generally 
between the ninth and twenty-fourth month, in the 
following manner; t”ne child becomes fedate, and grows 
lean, whilft the head grows fomewhat out of form ; the 
teeth come out (lowly, turn black, and fall out: in a 
little time the child becomes altogether mUhapen, fome 
parts growing whilft others pine away ; the ftools are 
liquid ; and after a confiderable time, a fever comes 
on, which continues till it puts an end to the pitiable 
ohjetft. 
But when it is not fo bad, the child recovers as he 
grows, till he recovers all but his fhape. 
Management. The child (hould not be kept longer 
than nfual at the breaft, he (hould have a portion of 
meat for his diet, much tea (hould be avoided ; he 
(hould be carried out every day for exercife, when the 
weather permits, and great attention (hould be paid to 
keeping him clean. 
Cure. If the weather is not very cold, let the child 
be dipped every morning in water immediately from 
the well : give him a tea-fpoonful of the tindture No. 7. 
three or four times a day, and let him take two or 
three grains of rhubarb, when coftive. 
Bark is alfo a good medicine, if the child can be 
prevailed on to take it. 
If there is much acid on the ftomach, give a little 
crabs eyes, or magneGa. 
CHAP. LXI. 
JAUNDICE. 
AUSES. Concretions of the bile flopping up the 
dudt, tumours, (palms of the gut into which the bile is emptied, as in colic and ob fir unions of the 
liver. 
Sj/inptoms. rVn unr-:r;l yellownefs which begins in 
the white of the eyes, w hit. ih ftonis, and pains about the 
right fide, ana fometimes a levelling at the lame place. 
Management. The patient Ihould live moftly on 
vegetables, except when very thin. Gentle exercile 
fhould be conftantly ufed; the drink Ihould be wine 
and water, when in the above (late, but if full, no- 
thing but water Ihould be uied. The patient Ihould 
carefully avoid cold andmoilture. 
Cure. A gentle emetic fhould be tried, and if it is 
of fervice, or dees not do harm, it Ihould be repeated ; 
this is befl fuited where there are gall-flones : but if 
the liver be obfiruhled, the patient fhould take one 
grain of calomel, every night and morning, till his 
gums feel fore. When much pain attends, twelve or 
fifteen drops of laudanum may be given twice a-day. 
Bitters are often ufeful ; alfo elixir of vitriol, to forty 
drops a-day. Soap has fometimes been ufeful, taken 
in pills ; but the chief dependence is to be put in diet 
and exercile. 
When there is any fever, the faline mixture, No. 2. 
fhould be ufed as there diredled. 
PRESCRIPTIONS. 
FEVER POWDERS. No. I. 
T’.KE one hundred grains of clean falt-petre, and 
one grain of tartar emetic ; beat the fait fine, 
and 'mix the tartar well with it ; divide it into five 
powders. 
One of thefe is generally given every two hours, in 
a cup of water or tea. SALINE MIXTURE. No. 2. 
Take two tea-fpoonfuls of fait of tartar, or fait of 
wormwood, diffolve it in fix table-fpoonfuls of water, 
and add lemon or lime juice to it, or pure vinegar gra- 
dually, until it ceafes to bubble : fweeten it. Two 
table-fpoonfuls every hour is generally the dofe. 
DECOCTION OF BARK. No. 3. 
To one ounce of bark add half a gallon of water, 
and boll it in about two or three hours to three gills ; 
{train it through a coarfe rag whilft hot. 
Dofe : Two table-fpoonfuls every two hours. 
TINCTURE OF BARK, No. 4. 
Pour a quart of Port or Madeira wine on two ounces 
of bark : in fix days it will be fit for ufe. 
Dofe : A fmall wine-glafs full from two to fix times 
a-day. 
MILD CLYSTER. No. 5. 
To one pint of milk add of lard or oil, molaffes, and 
Glauber or table fait, each one table-fpoonful ; warm 
it to the heat of blood, and ufe ir at once. 
COMMON LAXATIVE PILLS. No. 6. 
Take thirty-fix grains of aloes, and twenty-four of 
Caftile foap; make them into twelve pills with a little 
honey : one or two are a dofe. 
TINCTURE OF STEEL OR IRON. No. 7. 
On a handful of the flakes that fly off* round the an- 
vil (in a blackfmith’s (hop) pour a quart of Port wine ; 
let it Hand a few tveeks and then ufe half a wine-glafs 
full, once, twice, or three times a-day. BITTERS. No. 8. 
On an ounce of gentian root, finely cut, and half 
an ounce of orange peel, pour a pint of good brandy ; 
let them ftand five days, and then ufe about two tea* 
fpoonfuls in a little water, three times a-day. 
DOSES. 
for 
Laudanum. 
Drops. 
Tartar Emetic. 
Grains. 
Ipecacun^ 
Grains. 
a grown perfon 
io to 25 
2 to 4 
8 to 18 
a youth of 12 
4 to B 
I 1-2 to 2 1-2 
6 to 10 
a child of 3 
2 to 4 
I tO I 1-2 
4 to 6 
a babe 
X to 1 t-2 
t to * 
EXPLANATION OF DIFFICULT 
WORDS. 
Chalybeate. That whjch is Impregnated with 
Coma. A dlfordered date like deep. 
■Congestion. A colle&ion of humours. 
Contusion. PrdTure, squeeze, crulh. 
Constricted. Drawn together, bound. 
Debility, Peeblenefs, weaknefs. 
Decoction. That which is made by boiling. 
Delirium. A confulion of the internal ieufes. 
Demulcent, Softening. 
Desquamation. A peeling off. 
Exacerbate. Sharpening up, increafe. 
Efflorescence. An appearance of ruddy fpots. 
Exhalation. Vapouu, fume. 
Eminence. Raifed above a level. 
Eructation. A belching. 
fauces* The pofterior cavity of the awutlfr 98 
Flaccid. Relaxed, loofe. 
Gestation. Paffive exercife, as riding* 
Crumous. Clodded. 
Intermittent. With an interval. 
Laceration. Tare, rent. 
Mucilaginous. Jelly-like, {limy, vifcous. 
Narcotic. That which deftroys lenfe and flupi£e$» 
Nausea. Sicknefs at the flora ach. 
Obesity. Fatnefs. 
Ossify. To turn to bone. 
Palliative. That which mitigates, lefiens. 
Peripneumonia. Inflammation round the 
Pustules. Pimples with matter in them.. 
Radically. From the root, the bottom. 
Remit. To leffen, or ceafe partially. 
Respiration. The ad of breathing. 
Sedate. Given to inactivity, quiet. 
Sloughs. Mortified fpots. 
Spheroidal. lake a fphere, 
Suppurate. To turn to matter. 
Topical. Confined to a place or part. 
Torpor. Slownefs. 
Turgid. Swelled, bloated. 
Undulate. To proceed like waves. 
Ventilated, Expofed to the wind. 
Vesicles. Pimples with Witter ia them, like bladders^ CONTENTS 
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POPLEXY 78 
Afthma . 87 
Bleeding at the nofe 62 
Bite of a mad dog 93 
Catarrh. See cold and influenza 
Croup or Hives 20 
Chicken Pox 55 
Confumption 66 
Cold 74, 
Colic 88 
Cholera morbus, or vomiting and purging of bile 89 
Difcharge of blood from the urinary paffag£ 73 
Dyfpeplia, or Indigeftion 81 
Droplies 92 
Dofes 97 
Elfera, or Nettle Rafh 61 
Epilepfy, or Common 84 
Fever, Inflammatory 9 
Nervous 8 
Putrid 11 
— Remittent 14 
. Intermittent 16 
. Hectic 19 
Scarlet 58 
Flux 76 
Fainting 80 
Gout, Regular 45 
—■ — Atonic 47 
Mifpiaced 49 
■—— Retrocedent CON T E N T S* 
Hires 28 
Hooping Cough 88 
Hyfterics 91 
Inflammation of the eyes" 21 
* of the Brain 23 
* of the Stomach 35 
— of the Inteftinea 36 
— of the Liver 37 
of the Kidneys 39 
Influenza 75 
Jaundice 94 
Locked Jaw 82 
Lax or Loofenefs 90 
Mumps 29 
Meafles *56 
Mcnfes, Profufe 68 
Obdm&ecl 71 
Obftru&ed Liver 38 
Pleurify, true SO 
• Baftard 22 
Piles 68 
Pally 79 
Palpitation of the hear| 
Prei'criptions 95 
Putrid Sore Throat 26 
Quincy 25 
Rhemnatifm, Intercoftal 34 
• Acute 40 
>■ Chronic 41 
Rickets $4 
Sciatica 41 
Small Pox Diflindl 50 
Confluent 53 
St. Anthony’s Fire 
Spitting of Blood 64 
St. Vitus’s Dance S6 
Tooth ach 42 
Vomiting of. Blood 72 
Whites 71 
f I W J & PRIMITIVE PHYSIC: 
OS, 
AN EASY AND NATURAL 
METHOD OF CURING 
MOST 
DISEASES. 
Bv TOHN WESLEY, M. A. 
Homo fnm; human! nihil a me alienum puto. 
THE TWENTr-FIFTH EDITION. 
REVISED AND CORRECTED. 
PHTLADEL P HI A: 
Printed by Solomon JV. Conrad, No. 22, Pevt- 
TER-Pl, A.TTER ALLEY, FOR EzEKIRL C00PZRt 
No. 118, North Fourth-street, hear 
the Methodist Church. 
1801. PREFACE. 
WHEN than came firft out of the hands 
of the yeat Creator, clothed in body 
as well as in foil I, with immortality and in- 
corruption, there was no place for phyfic, 
or the art of healing. As he knew no lin, 
fo he knew no pain, nolicknefs, weaknefs, 
or bodily diforder. The habitation where- 
in the angelic mind, the Divinse particula 
Auras abode, though originally formed out 
of the dull of the earth, was liable to no de 
cay. It had no feeds of corruption or cftflb- 
lution within itfelf. And there was nothing 
without to injure it: Heaven and earth and 
all the holls of them were mild, benign and 
friendly to human nature. The entire cre- 
ation was at peace with man, fo long as 
man was at peace with his Creator. So 
that well might “ the morning ftars fing to- 
gether, and all the fons of God iliout for joy.’* 
2. But fmce man rebelled againft the Sove- 
reign of heaven and earth, how entirely is the 
fcene changed! The incorruptible frame hath 
put on corruption, the immortal has put on 
mortality. The feeds of weaknefs and pain, of 
ficknefs and death are now lodged in our in- 
mollfubftance; whence a thoufand diforders 
continually fpring, even without the aid of 
external violence. And how is the number 
of thefe increafed by every thing round about 
us! The heavens, the earth, and all things 
contained therein, confpire to puuUh the  PREFACE. 
rebels again ft their Creator. The fun and 
moon fried unwholefome influences from 
above; the earth exhales poifonous clamps 
from beneath; the beafts of the field, the 
birds of the air, the fifties of the fea are in a 
ftatc of hoftility: the air itfelf that furrounds 
us on every fide, is replete w ith the fhafts of 
death: yea, the food we eat, daily faps the 
foundation of the life which cannot be fuftain- 
ed without it. So has the Lord of all fecured 
the execution of his decree,Dull thou 
art, and unto duft thou (halt return.” 
3. But can there nothing be found to 
leffen thofe inconveniencies, which cannot 
be wholly removed? To foften the evils of 
life, and prevent in part the licknefs and 
pain to which we are continually expofed ? 
Without queftion there may. One grand 
preventative of pain and licknefs of various 
kinds, feems intimated by the great Author 
of nature in the very fentence that intails 
death upon us : “In the fweat of thy face 
flialt thou eat bread, till thou return to the 
ground.” The power of exercife, both to 
preferve and reftore health, is greater than 
can be conceived; efpecially in thofe 
who add temperance thereto ; wdio if they 
do not confine themfelves altogether to eat 
either “ bread or the herb of the field” 
(which God dees not require them to do) 
vet fteadily obferve both that kind and 
meafure of food, which experience fhews 
to be moft friendly to ftrength and health. PREFACE. 
4. It is probable, phyfic, as well as reli- 
gion, was in the firll ages chiefly traditional: 
every father delivering down to his fons, v hat 
he had himleif in like manner received, con- 
cerning the manner of healing both outward 
hurts, and the difeafes incident to each cli- 
mate, and the medicines which were of the 
greatell efficacy for the cure of each diforder* 
It is certain, this is the method wherein 
the art of healing is prefcrved among the 
Americans to this clay., Their difeafes are 
exceeding few; nor do they often occur, 
by reafon of their continual exerclfe, and 
(till oflate) univerfal temperance. But if any 
are Tick, or bit by a ferpent, or torn by a w ild 
beall, the fathers immediately tell their chil- 
dren what remedy to apply. And it is rare 
that the patient fuffers long; thofe medicines 
being quick, as well as generally infallible. 
5. Hence it was, perhaps, that the an- 
cients, not only of Greece and Home, but 
even of barbarous nations, ufually afligned 
phyfic a divine original. And indeed it 
was a natural thought, that he who had 
taught it to the very beafts and birds, the 
Cretan Stag, the Egyptian Ibis, could not 
be wanting to teach man, 
Sanctius his animal, mentisque capacius altcc ; 
Yea, fometimes even by thofe meaner crea- 
tures: for it was eafy to infer, “ If this 
will heal that creature, whofe flefh is nearly 
of the fame texture with mine, then in a PREFACE. 
parallel cafe it will heal me.” The trial 
was made: the cure was wrought: and ex- 
experience and phyfic grew up together. 
6. As to the manner of ufmg the medi- 
cines here fet down, I fhould advife, as foon 
as you know your diftemper (which is very 
ealy, unlefs in complication of cfforders, 
and then you would do well to apply to a 
phyfician that fears God) First, Ufethefirft 
of the remedies for that difeafe, which oc- 
curs in the enfuing collection ; (unlefs feme 
other of them beeafier to be had, and then 
it may do juft as well.) Secondly, After a 
competent time, if it takes no effeCf, ufe 
the fecond, the third, and fo on. I have 
purpofely fet down (in moft cafes) feveral 
remedies for each diforder; not only be- 
caufe all are not equally eafy to be procured 
at all times, and in all places : but likewife 
the medicine that cures one man, will, not 
always cure another of the fame diftemper. 
Nor will it cure the fame man at all times. 
Therefore it was neceffary to have a variety. 
However I have fubjoined the letter f IJ to 
thofe medicines which fome think infallible. 
Thirdly, Obferye all the time the greateft 
exaClnefs in your regimen or manner of 
living. Abftain from all mixed, all high- 
feafoned food. Ufe plain diet, eafy of di- 
geftion; and this as fparingly as you can, 
confident with eafe and ftrength. Drink 
only water, if it agrees with your ftomach; 
if not, good, clear, final! beer. Ufe as PREFACE. 
much exercife daily in the open air, as you 
can without wcarinefs. Sup at lix or feven 
on the lighteft food; go to bed early, and 
rife betimes. To perfcvere with lleadinefs 
in this courfe, is often more than half the 
cure. Above all, add to the reft (for it is 
not labour loft) that old unfafhionable me- 
dicine, prayer. And have faith in God who 
44 killeth and maketh alive, who bringetb 
down to the grave, and bringetb up.” 
7. For the fake of thole who defire 
through the blefling of God, to retain the 
health which they have recovered, I have 
added, a fewr plain, eafy rules, chiefly tranf- 
cribedfrom Dr. Cheyne. 
1. I. The air we breathe is of great confe- 
quence to our health. Thofe who have been 
long abroad in eafterly or northerly winds, 
fli on Id drink fome thin and warm liquor go- 
ing to bed, or a draught of toaft and water. 
2. Tender people Ihould have thofe who 
lie with them, or are much about them, 
found, fweet, and healthy. 
3. Every one that would preferve health, 
Ihould be as clean and fweet as poflible in 
their houfes, clothes, and furniture. 
II. 1. The great rule of eating and drink- 
ing is, T o fuit the quality and quantity of the 
food to the ftrength of our digeftion ; to take 
always fuch a fort and fuch a meafure of 
food, as fits light and eafy on the ftomach. 
2. All pickled, fmoaked, orfaltedfood,and 
all high-feafoned, are alone unfit for aliment.  PREFACE. 
3. Nothing conduces more to health, than 
abftinence and plain food, with due labour. 
4. For ftudious perfons, about eight 
ounces of animal food, and twelve of vege- 
table, in twenty-four hours, are fufficient. 
5. Water, though the wholefomeft of all 
drinks, yet if ufed largely in time of digef- 
tion, is injurious. 
6. Strong, and more efpecially fpirituous 
liquors, are a certain, though (low, poifon, 
uniefs well diluted, and cautioufly ufed. 
7. Experience thews, there is very fel- 
dom any danger in leaving them off all at 
once; uniefs in time of particular difeafes, 
as of debility. . . 
8. Strong liquors do not prevent the 
mifchiefs of a forfeit, nor carry it oft' fo fafe- 
ly as water. 
9. Malt liquors (except clear fmall beer, 
or fmall ale, of a due age) are exceeding 
hurtful to tender perfons. 
10. Coffee and tea are extremely hurtful 
to perfons who have weak nerves. 
III. 1. All perfons fhould eat very light 
fuppers ; and that two or three hours before 
going to bed. 
2. To go to bed about nine, and rife at 
five, fhould be a general practice. 
IV. 1. A due degree of exercife is in- 
difpenfably neceffary to health and long life, 
2. Walking isthebeft exercife for thofe who 
are ableto bear it ;>ridingforthofe who are not. PREFACE. 
IX 
The open air, when the weather is fair, con- 
tributes much to the benefit of exercife. 
3. We may ftrengthen any weak part of the 
body by coriftant exercife. Thus the lunt*s may 
be ftrengthened by moderate fpeaking; the 
digeftion and the nerves, by riding; the arms 
and hams, by ftrongly rubbing them daily. 
4. The ftudious ought to have Hated 
times for exercife, at leaft two or three 
hours a-day ; the one half of this before 
dinner, the other' before going to bed. 
5. They fhould frequently (have, and 
frequently walh their feet in cold water. 
6. Thofe who read or write much, fhould 
learn to do it chiefly Handing; other wife it 
will impair their health. 
7. The fewer clothes any one ufes, by 
day or night, the hardier he will be; but 
the habit rnuft be begun in youth. 
8. Exercife, firft, fhould be always on 
an empty ftomach; fecondly, fhould never 
be continued to wearinefs ; thirdly, after it, 
we fhould take care to cool by degrees; 
other wife we fhall catch cold. 
9. The flefh-brufh is a mofl ufeful exercife,’ 
efpecially to ftrengthen any part that is weak. 
10. Cold bathing is of great adv antage to 
health : it prevents abundance of difeafes. 
It promotes perfpiration, helps the circula- 
tion of the blood, and prevents the danger 
of catching cold. T ender people fhould pour 
water upon the head before they go in, and 
walk in fwiftly. To jump in with the head  PREFACE. 
foremoll, is too great a (hock to nature. 
It is bell to ufe it immediately after riling. 
V. 1. Coftivenefs cannot long confift Math 
health. Therefore care Ihould be taken to 
remove it at the beginning by a gentle me- 
dicine ; and when it is removed, to prevent 
its return, by foft, cool, open diet; as of 
vegetables, acid or fweet. 
2. Obltrucled perfpiration (vulgarly 
cafed catching cold) is one great fource 
of (ifeafes. W henever there appears the 
leaft flgn of this, let it be removed by gen- 
tle IV eats or purges. 
VI. 1. The paflions have a greater influ- 
ence on health, than molt people are aware of. 
2. All violent and hidden pafiionsdifpcfeto, 
or adlually throw pcopie into acute difeafes. 
3. The flow and lulling paflions, fuchas 
grief and hopelefs love, bring on chronic 
oifeafes, and low fevers. 
4. 1 i the pafiion which caufed the dif- 
eafe, is calmed, medicine is applied in vain. 
5. The love of God, as it is the fove- 
reign remedy of ail miferies, fo in particu- 
lar it efledlualiy prevents all the bodily dif- 
orckrs the paflions introduce, by keeping 
the paflions themfelves within due bounds. 
And by the unbeatable joy, and perfect 
calm, ferenity ,and tranquillity it gives the 
mil d, it becomes the moll powerful of all 
the means of health and long life. 
London, June 11? 1747. TO THE 
MEMBERS 
OF THE 
Methodift Epifcopal Church 
Friends and Brethren, 
rT"'HE grand interells of your fouls will 
ever lie near our hearts ; but we can- 
not be unmindful of your bodies. In fe- 
veral parts of this extenfive country, the 
climate, and in others the food, is un whole - 
fome: and frequently, the phyficians are 
few, fome of them unikilful, and all of 
them beyond the reach of your temporal 
abilities. A few fmall publications except- 
ed, little has been done by phyfical books, 
in order to remove thefe inconveniencies : 
and even thofe have been written in Europe, 
and do therefore partake of the confined 
ideas of the writers, who could not pofiibly 
be fully acquainted with the peculiarities of 
the various difeafes incident to a people that 
inhabit a country fo remote from theirs. 
Simple remedies are in general the mofr 
fafe for fimple diforders, and fometimes do 
wonders under the blefling of God. In 
this view we prefent to you now, the Pri- 
mitive Physic, publilhed by our much 
honoured friend John Wesley. But the 
difference being in many refpe£Is great be- 
tween this country and England, in regard to climate, the conftitutkm of patients, and 
even the qualities of the lame fnriplc%,— 
wefaw it neceifary for you, to have it re- 
vifed by phyficians pradlifmg in this coun- 
try, who at our requell have added caution- 
ary and explanatory notes where they were 
neceifary, with fome additional receipts 
fuitable to the climate. 
In this ftate we lay the publication before 
you, and earneftly recommend it to you. 
As we apply all the profits of our books 
to charitable purpofes, and the promoting 
the work of God, we think we have fome 
right to intreat you (except in particular 
cafes) to buy only our books, which arc 
recommended by, the conference, and lign- 
cd with our fignatures : and as we intend 
to print our books in future within the 
states, and on a much larger fcale than 
we have hitherto done, we trull we fhallbc 
able foon to fupply you with as many of the 
choifeft of our publications, as the time and 
temporal abilities of thofe of you, who 
do not live a life of lludy, will require. 
W e remain, dear brethren, as ever, 
Your faithful pallors, 
THOMAS COKE, 
FRANCIS ASBURY. A 
COLLECTION OF RECEIPTS. 
[N. B. We would inform our readers, that the receipts and notes 
indofed in brackets, as this is, are inferred by the phylicians 
who revi ed the copy for this iinprellion; and al(b, that 
the prefcrjptions marked • are better than the others.] 
1. Abortion* (to prevent.) 
* TTTOMEN of a weak or relaxed habit fhould 
VV ufe I'olid food, avoiding great quantities 
of tea, and other weak and watery liquors. They 
fhould go loon to bed, and rife early ; and take fre- 
quent exercife, but avoid fatigue. 
If of a full habit, they ought to ufe a fpare diet, 
and chiefly of the vegetable kind, avoiding ftrong li- 
quors, and every thing that may tend to heat the body, 
or increafe the quantity of blood. 
In the firll cafe, take daily half a pint of a decoc- 
tion of lignum vita; : boiling an ounce of it in a quart 
of water for five minutes. 
In the latter cafe, give half a drachm of powdered 
nitre, in a cup of water gruel, every five or fix hours: 
in both cafes lhe]fhould deep on a hard mattrafs and be 
kept cool and quiet. The bowels fhould be kept regu- 
lar by a pill of white walnut extract. 
• [In the flr/l cafe, the cold bath ufed two or three times a week, 
from the beginning to the fixth month of pregnancy, is deemed effec- 
tual—in the latter cafe, bleeding at' The am ia the fourth and (eventb 
months may be ufed.] 2. For an Ague.* 
Go .into the cold bath juft before the cold fit. 
gO01 Nothing tends more to prolong an ague, than 
indu'ging a lazy indolent disposition. The patient 
ought therefore between thefts to take as much exercise 
as he can bear ; and to use a light diet, and for com- 
mon drink, Port wine and water is the most proper. 
* When all other means fail, give blue vitriol, from 
cue grain to two grains, in the abfence of the fit, and 
repeat It three or four times in twenty-four hours. 
Or, boil yarrow in new milk, till it is tender enough 
to fpre'ad as a plafter. An hour before the cold fit, 
apply thus to tne wrifts, and let it be on till the hot fit 
is over. If another fit comes, ufe a frefh plafter. 
This often cures a quartan ; 
* Or, put a tea-fpoonful of fait of tartar into a large 
glafs of ipring water, and drink it by little and little. 
Repeat the fame dole the next two days, before the 
time of the fit: 
* Or, a large fpoonful of powdered camomile flow- 
ers ; 
* Or, a tea-fpocnful of the fpirits of hartlhorn in 
a glafs of water : 
Or, eat a final I lemon, rind and all. 
* In the hot fit, if violent, take eight or ten drops 
cf laudanum : if coftive, with an Anderfon’s pills. 
* Dr. Lind fays, an ague is certainly cured by 
taking from ten to twenty drops of laudanum, with 
Two drachms cf fyrup of poppies, in any warm liquid, 
half an hour after the heat begins. 
* |ygj* It is proper to take a gentle •comity and some- 
times a purge, before you use any of these medicines, 
V* vomit is taken two hours before the ft is expected, 
it generally prevents that ft, and sometimes cures an 
ague: especially in children.—It is also proper to re- 
peat the medicine (whatever it be) about a week after 
* An aeue 'is an intermhting fe.ver, each fit of which is preceded ty 3 
cold fldverb'Ei and goes off in a meat. in order to prevent a relapse. Do not take any purge 
soon after.— The dally use of the fesh-brush, and fre- 
quent cold bathing, are of great use to prevent relapses. 
* Children have been cyred by wearing a waiftcoat, 
in which bark was quilted. 
[Tliofe fevers which abate their violence at times* 
that there appears an abfence of the fever for a certain 
period between two fits, are called intennittents, fays 
Galen. The length of the period determines tiie name, 
as quotidian, tertian, double tertian, quartan. The 
fpring intennittents feldom need the grand fpetific 
remedy, viz. The Peruvian bark, in this climate, as 
by adrniniftering-a vomit of twenty grains of ipeca- 
cuana, or of eight grains of the former and one of 
tartar emetic mixed for a grown perlbn, the fucceed- 
ing heat of the feafon affedds the cure, and often with- 
out med’cine. The fail intennittents feldom put on a 
regular form at firft in adults, but are generally remit- 
ting fevers ; but even though they approach nearer to 
a continual fever, the patient feldom needs bleeding-, 
and perhaps never in regular intennittents. In either 
cafe a vomit as before mentioned, the firft opportunity 
in remitting, and two hours before the fit m an inter- 
mitting fever, with warm diluting drinks in the time 
of the fit, and when intermitting regularly, the bark 
may be applied after the operation of the vomit, and 
the fit is over. Children generally need only to be 
purged before the ufe of the bark, with jalap or rhu- 
barb ; the dole of thefe may be thirty grains for a 
grown perlbn, and half the quantity for one of nine 
years old, and in proportion. After the fever regu- 
larly intermits, and the ftomach has been cleanfed and 
the body kept open, the Peruvian bark may be given 
(unlefs fome inflammation or obftruction prevent) im- 
mediately after the fit, t\yo ounces, and often one is gc- 
rally fumcient, thus:—Divide an ounce of powder 
of the bark into twelve doles ; let the lick man or wo- 
man take one every two hours between the fits, and 
continue them after the return of the next ; or— 
Bod an ounce of the bark in a pint and an half of wa- ter gently down to a pint, ftrain off the liquid, and 
take a wine-glafs full every two hours; or—To an 
ounce of the bark in powder add four or five fpoon- 
fuls of proof fpirit and a pint of boiling water, let 
$hem infufe two or three days; to ufe as the former— 
But it is heft in fubftance when it can be taken.] 
3. St. Anthony’s Fire.* 
* Take a glafs of tar-water, warm, in bed, every 
hour, wafhing the part with the fame. 
|d7* Tar-water is made thus.—-Put a gallon of cold 
water to a cuart of Norway tar. Stir them together 
•with a flat stick for flve or six minutes. After it has 
stood covered for three days, pour off the water clear, 
bottle and cork it. 
Or, take a decs&lon of elder leaves, as a fweat ; 
applying to the part a cloth dipt in lime water, mixed 
with a little camphorated fpirits of wine. 
Lime water is made thus.—Infuse a pound of 
good quick lime in six quarts of spring water for 
twenty-four hours. Decant and keep it for use. 
* Or, take two or three gentle purges No acute 
fever bears repeated purges better than this, efpecially 
when it affe&s the head : meantime boil a handful of 
fage, two handfuls of elder leaves (or bark) and an 
ounce of alum in two quarts of forge-water, to a pint. 
Wafh with this every night.—See extract from Dr. 
Tiffot. 
If the pulfe be low and the fpirits funk, nour idling 
broths and a little negus may be given to advantage ; 
Drelfmg the inflammation with greafy ointments, falves, 
&x. is very improper. 
Bathing the feet and legs in warm water is fervicea- 
ble, and often relieves the patient much. In Scotland 
• St. Anthony 's fire is a fever attended with a red and painful {welling, 
full of pimpies, which afterwards turn into tmali bHfters, on the face or 
feme other part of the body. The fooner the eruption is, the lefs 
danger. Let your diet be only water-gruel, er barley-brjtli, with roafted 
apples. the common people cover the part with a linen cloth 
covered with meal. 
4. The Apoplexy.* 
Ill the fit, put a handful of fait into a pint of cold 
water, and if poffible pour it down the throat of the pa- 
tient. He will quickly come to himfelf. So will one 
who feems dead by a fail. But fend for a good phy- 
fieian immediately. 
If the fit be foon after a meal, vomit and bleed. 
* A feton in the neck, with low diet, has often pre- 
vented a relapfe. 
* There is a wide difference between the fanguineous 
and ferious apoplexy; the latter is often followed by a 
pally. —The former is diftinguilhed by the counte- 
nance appearing florid; the face fwclled or puffed up; 
and the blood-vcffels, efpecially about the neck and tem- 
ples, are turgid; the pulfe beats ftrong; the eyes are 
prominent and fixed ; and the breathing is difficult, and 
performed with a fnorting. This invades more fud- 
denly than the ferious apoplexy. Ufe large bleedings 
from the arm or neck; bathe the feet in warm water; 
cupping on the back of the head, with deep fcarifica- 
tion. The garters lliould be tied very tight to lelfen 
the motion of the blood from the lower extremities. 
* A icruple of nitre may be given in water, every 
three or four hours. 
* When the patient is fo far recovered as to be able 
to fwailow, let him take a ftrong purge ; but if this 
cannot be effected, a clyfter lliould be thrown up with 
plenty of frelh butter, and a large fpoonful of common 
fait in it. 
In the ferious apoplexy, the pulfe is not fo ffrong, 
the countenance is lei’s florid, and not attended with fo 
* An apoplexy is a total lofj of all fenfe and voluntary motion, com- 
mon!!' attended with a llrorg pulfe, hard breathing and fnoning. great a difficulty of breathing. Here bleeding is not fo 
neceffary, but a vomit of three grains of emetic tar- 
tar may be given, and afterwards a purge as before, and 
a blifter applied to the back of the neck. 
ICy" This apoplexy is generally preceded by an un- 
usual heaviness;, giddiness, end drowsiness. 
5. Canine Appetite.* 
il If it be without vomiting, is often cured by a 
fmall bit of bread dipt in wine, and applied to the 
noflrlls.” Dr. Schomberg. 
6. The Afthma. f 
Take a pint of cold water ever}' morning, walking 
the head therein immediately after, and uling the cold 
bath once a fortnight: 
Or, cut an ounce of flick liquorice into dices. Steep 
this in a quart of water, four and twenty hours, and 
ufe it, when you are worfe than ufual, as common 
drink. I have known this give much eafe. 
Or, half a pint of tar-water twice a day. 
Or, live a fortnight on boiled carrots only. It fel- 
dom fails ; 
Or, take from ten to twenty drops of elixir of vitri- 
ol, in a glafs of water, three or four times a-day. 
|Cj3' Elixir of vitriol is made thus.—Drop gradu- 
ally four ounces of strong oil of vitriol into a pint of 
spirits of wine, or brandy; let it stand three days, 
and add to it ginger sliced, half an ounce, and Ja- 
maica pepper, whole, one ounce. In three days more 
it is fit for use. 
Or, into a quart of boiling water, put a tea-fpoon- 
ful of balfamic aether, receive the fleam into the lungs, 
through a fumigator, twice a day. 
* An infatlable defirc of eating. 
t An Afthma is a difficulty of breathing, returning at intervals, from a 
dtfordcr la the lungs, la the common (or rtwilt) afthma, the patient 
fpiu much. Balfamic aether is made thus.—Put four 
entices of spirits of wine, and one ounce of balsam of 
tolu, into a vial, with one ounce of either. Keep it 
•well corked. But it will not keep above a week. 
For prefent relief, vomit with twelve grains of ipe- 
cacuana. 
7. A Dry or Convulfive Afthma. 
Juice of radifhes relieves much ; fo docs a cup of 
ftrong coffee : or, garlic, either raw, or preferred, or 
in fyrup : , 
Or, drink a pint of new milk morning and even- 
ing.—This has cured an inveterate afthma. 
Or, beat fine faffron fmall, and take eight or ten 
grains every night.—Tried. 
Take from three to five grains of ipecacuana every 
week. Do this, if need be, for a month or fix weeks. 
Five grains ufuully vomit. In a violent fit, take fif- 
teen grains. 
In any afthma, the heft drink is apple-water; that 
is, boiling water poured on diced apples. 
The food fhould be light and eafy of digeftion. 
Ripe fruits baked, boiled, or roafted, are very pro- 
per ; but ftrong liquors of all kinds, efpecially beer 
or ale, are hurtful. If any fupper is taken, it ftiduld 
be very light. 
* All diforders of the breads are much relieved by 
keeping the feet warm, and promoting perfpiration. 
Exercife is alfo of very great importance ; fo that the 
patient fhould take as much every day, as his ftrength 
■will bear. Iffues are found in general to be of great 
fervice. 
Dr. Smyth, in his Formulae, recommends muftard- 
whey as common drink, in the moift afthma ; and a 
deco&ion of the madder root to promote fpittlng. 
fCs* The deco&ion is made thus.—Soil one ounce 
tf madder, and two drachms of mace, in three pints of water, to two pints, then strain it, and take a 
tea-cupful three or four times a day. 
8. To cure Baldnefs. 
Rub the part morning and evening, with onions, 
till it is red, and rub it. afterwards with honey. Or, 
wafh it with a dcco&ion of box-wood) Tried. Or, 
cle&rify it daily. 
9. Bleeding at the Nofe (to prevent.) 
Diffolve two fcruples of nitre in half a pint of water, 
and take a tea-cupful every hour, if the patient is 
plethoric. 
* To cure it, apply to the neck behind and on each 
fide, fi doth dipt in cold water : 
Or, put the legs and arms In cold water : 
Or, wafh the temples, nofe, and neck with vinegar: 
Or, fnufF up vinegar and water. 
* Or, foment the legs and arms with it : 
Or, deep a linen rag in (harp vinegar, burn it, and 
blow it up the nofe with a quill : 
* Or, apply tents made of foft lint dipped in cold 
water, ftrongly impregnated with a folution of alum, 
and introduced within the noftnls quite through to 
their pofttrior apertures. 
Or, diffolve an ounce of alum powdered, in a pint 
of vinegar ; apply a cloth, dipt in this, to the temples, 
fleeping the feet in warm water. 
Jn a violent cafe, go into a pond or river. Tried. 
—See extradb from Dr. Tiffot. 
10. Bleeding of a Wound 
Make two or three light ligatures towards the low- 
er part of each joint; flacken them gradually ; Or, apply tops of nettles brulfed ; 
Or, ftrew on it the alhes of a linen rag, dipt in 
fharp vinegar and burnt : 
Or, take ripe puff-balls. Break them warily, and 
fave the powder. Strew this on the wound and bind 
it on. 1 This will flop the bleeding of an amputa- 
ted limb. 
[Or, take of blue vitriol and alum each an ounce and 
a half, boil them in a pint of water till the falts are dif- 
folved, then filter the ’ liquid and add a drachm of the 
oil of vitriol: a foft rag may be dipped in this, and ap- 
plied up the nofe; or any bleeding we can come at.—. 
Buchan.—Or, ufe the agaric of the oak. 
11. Spitting of Blood, f 
Take two fpoonfuls of juice of nettles every morn- 
ing, and a large cup of decoction of nettles at night, 
for a week : Tried. 
Or, three fpoonfuls of fage-juice in a little honey. 
This prefently Hops either fpitting or vomiting blood ; 
Tried. 
Or, twenty grains of alum in water every two hours. 
12. Vomiting of Blood. 
Take two fpoonfuls of nettle juice. 
/*C7" This alfo diffolves blood coagulated in the llo- 
ruach.)—Tried. 
Or, take as much fait petre, as will lie upon half a 
crown, dilfolved in a glafs of cold water, two or three 
times a day. 
13. To diffolve coagulated Blood 
Bind on the part for fome hours, a pafte made of 
black foap and crumbs of white bread: 
L 
t [Eat a table-fpoonful of fine common fait every morning falling, or 
a tca-fpoonfolevery three hours, until the bleeding flops.] Or, grated root of burdock fpread on a rag; renew 
this twice a-day. 
14. Blifters, 
On the feet, occafioned by walking, are cured by 
drawing a needle full of worfled through them, clip it 
off at both ends, and leave it till the Ikin peels off. 
15. Biles 
Apply a little Venice turpentine: 
Or, an equal quantity of i'oap and brown fugar well 
mixt. , 
Or, a pi after of honey and wheat flour; 
* Or, of figs : 
Or, a little laffron in a white bread poultice. 
’Tis proper to purge alio. 
16. Hard Breafts. 
Apply turnips rcafted till foft, then mafhed and mix- 
ed with a little oil of rofes. Change this tw ice a-day, 
keeping Lhe Lrtall very warm with flannel. 
17. Sore Breafts and Swelled, 
* Apply lead water. 
Or, boil a handful of camomile and as much mal- 
lows in milk and water. Foment with it between two 
flannels, as hot as can be borne, every twelve hours. 
It alfo dilfolves any knot or fwelling in any part, where 
tnerc is no inflammation. 
18. ABruife. 
Immediately apply treacle fpread on brown paper : 
Tried. 
Or, apply a pi after of chopt parfley mixt with butter; 
Or, electrify the pai t. 1 his is the quickeft cure of all. 19. To prevent Swelling from a Bruife. 
* Immediate!v apply a cloth, five or fix times dou- 
bled, dipt in cold water, and new dipt when it grows 
warm : Tried. 
20. A Burn or Scald. 
If it be but fkin deep, immediately plunge the part 
in cold water, keep it in an hour, if not well before. 
Perhaps four or five hours : Tried. 
Or cle&rify it. If this can be done prefently, it 
totally cures the mod defperate burn. 
Or, if the part cannot be dipt, apply a cloth four 
times doubled, dipt in cold water, changing it "when it 
grows warm. 
21. A deep Burn or Scald 
* Apply inner rind of elder well mixt with frefh 
butter. When this is' bound on with a rag, plunge 
the part into cold water. This will fufpend the pain 
till the medicine heals. 
Or, mix lime-water andfweetoil, to the thicknefs of 
cream, apply it with a feather feveral times a-day. Thii 
is the mod effcdlual application I ever met with. 
Or, put twenty-five drops of Goullard’s extraft of 
lead, to half a pint of rain-water ; dip linen rags in it, 
and apply them to the part affefted. This is particu- 
larly ferviceable if the burn is near the eyes. 
22. A Cancer.* 
* Diffolve four grains of white arfenic in a pint of 
water, one table-fpoonful every morning in molaffes or 
milk mult be taken. 
* A cancer Is a hard, round, uneven, painful fwelling, of a blackifh or 
leaden colour, the veins round which teem ready to bnrft. It comes 
commonly with a fwelling as b'g as a pea; which does not at firfl give 
much pain, nor change the colour of the fltin. 23. Chilblains (to prevent.) 
* Wear focks of Chamois leather, or ft!k. 
Bathe the feet often in cold water, and when this is 
done, apply a turnip poultice. 
24. Children 
* To prevent the rickets, tendernefs, and weaknefs, 
dip them-in cold water, every morning, at leaft till they 
are eight or nine months old. 
No roller fliould ever be put round their bodies, nor 
any flays ufed. Inflead of them, when they are put 
into fhort petticoats, put a walflcoat under their frocks. 
Let them go bare-footed and bare-headed till they 
are three or four years old at leaft. 
’Tis heft to wean a child when feven months old, if 
it be difpofed to rickets. It fliould lie in the cradle at 
leaft a year. 
No child fliould touch any fpirituous or fermented 
liquor, before two years old. Their drink fliould be 
water. 'Idea they fliould never tafte till ten or twelve 
years old. Milk, milk-porridge, and water gruel, are 
the proper breakfafls for children. 
25. Chin-Cough, or Hooping-Cough 
Rub the feet thoroughly with hog’s lard, before tlie 
fire, at going to bed, and keep the child warm therein ; 
Tried. 
Or, rub the back, at lying down, wrlth old rum. It 
feldom fails ; 
Or, give a fpoonful of juice of penny-royal, mixt 
with brown fugar candy, twice a-day; 
Or, half a pint of milk, warm from the cow, with 
the quantity of a nutmeg of conferve of rofes difibiv- 
td in it every morning. Or, diffolve a fcruple of fait of tartar in a quarter 
of a pint of clear water : add to it ten grains of finely 
powdered cochineal, and fweeten it with loaf fugar. 
Give a child within the year, the fourth part of a 
fpoonful of this, four times a day, with a fpoonful of 
barley-water after it. Give a child two years old, half 
a fpoonful : a child above four years old, a fpoonful. 
Boiled apples put into warm milk may be his chief food. 
This relieves in twenty-four hours, and cures in five 
or fix days. 
* Or take two grains of tartar emetic, and half a 
drachm of prepared crabs claws powdered: let them 
be mixt very well together. 
One grain, one grain and a half, or two grains of 
this compolition, may be added to five or fix grains of 
magnefia, and given in a fmall fpoonful of milk and 
water in the forenoon, between breakfaft and dinner, 
to a child a year old. 
* At night, if the fever is very high, half the for- 
mer dofe of this powder may be given, with from five 
to ten grains of nitre. 
In defperate cafes, change of air, will have a good 
effect. 
26. Cholera Morbus : i. e. Flux and 
Vomiting of Bile.* 
* Boil a chicken an hour in two gallons of water, 
and drink of this till the vomiting ceafes : 
Or, dccodlion oi rite, or barley, or toafled oaten- 
bread. 
* If the pain is very fevere, fteep the belly with 
flannels dipt in fpirits and water. 
L 2 
* [After the bowels are well emptied by large and frequently repeafed 
draughts of the iff and ad preferiptions under this head, infant ic, er, 
in an extreme low fa nty llate, may be obtained by taking frem 25 to 
30 drops of liquid laudanum in a glafs of mint tea. This is :i dole tor 
fciown pcifons*, if under 15 years of age, it muff be proportioned ac* 
cording!}.] * The third day after the cure, take ten or fifteen 
grains of rhubarb. 
27. Chops in Women’s Nipples. 
Apply balfam of fugar : 
* Or, apply butter of wax, which fpeedily heals 
them. 
28. Chopt Hands (to prevent.) 
Wafh them with flour of milliard. 
* Or, in bran and water boiled togethei. 
29. (To Cure.) 
Waflithem with foft foap, mixed with red fand : 
Tried. 
Or, walh them in fugar and water ; Tried. 
30. Chop! Lips. 
Apply a little fal prunella. 
31. A Cold. 
Drink a pint of cold water lying down in bed ; Tricc[* 
Or, a fpoonful of treacle in half a pint of water : 
Tried. 
Or, to one fpoonful of oatmeal, and one fpoonful of 
honey, add a piece of butter, the bignefs of a nutmeg : 
pour on gradually near a pint of boiling water : drink 
this lying down in bed. 
32. A Cold in the Head 
Pare very thin the yellow rind of an orange. Roll 
it up infide out, and thrufl a roll into each nufbil. 33. The Colic (in the Fit.) 
Drink of camomile tea : 
Or, take from thirty to forty grains, of yellow peel 
of oranges, dried and powdered in a glafs of water. 
* Or, take from five to fix drops of oil of auifeed 
on a lump of fugar. 
* Or, apply outwardly a bag of hot oats : 
* Or, fteep the legs in hot water a quarter of an 
hour : 
* Or, take as much Daffy’s elixir as will prefently 
purge. This relieves the moil violent colic in an 
hour or two. 
| CJ* Daffy’s elixir is made thus:—Sena two 
jalap one. ounce, coriander seed half an ounce ; Gene- 
va., or proof spirit, three pints ; let them digest seven 
daps; strain, and add loaf sugar four ounces. 
34. The Dry Colic (to prevent.) 
Drink ginger tea. 
35. Colic in Children. *- 
Give a fcruple of powdered auifeed in their meat ; 
T tied. 
Or, fmall dofes of magnefia. 
* Or, a drachm of anifated tindlure of rhubarbj 
every three hours till it operates. 
36. Bilious Colic.f 
Drink warm lemonade : 
* [Children fufcject to daily and fevere colic pains, fhouM take the 
breaft [par ugly, and chiefly be fed on flinple chicken broth. Strong 
mallows root tea, takeij every now and then, is an excellent medicine 
in this complaint ] 
f This is generally attended with vomiting a greenifli or frothy mat. 
ter, with feverifh heat, violent third, a bitter talle in the mouth, and 
little and high-coloured urine. Or, give a fpoonful of caftor oil.* 
37. An Habitual Colic, 
* Wear a thin, foft flannel on the part. 
38. An Hyfteric Colic.f 
Mrs. Watts, by nfing tlie cold bath two and twenty 
times in a month, was entirely cured of an hyfteric 
colic, fits, and convulftye motions, continual fweatinga 
and vomiting, wandering pains in her limbs and head, 
with total lofs of appetite. 
* Take 10, 15, or 20 drops of balfam of Peru on 
fine fugar : if need be, twice or thrice a day : 
Or, in extremity, boi! three ounces of burdock- 
feed in water, which give as a clyfter; 
* Or, twenty drops of laudanum, in any proper 
clyfter ; which gives inftant eafe. 
[In this diforder there often is fuch a vomiting, 
that no medicine for the prefent can be contained on 
the ftomach long enough to be advantageous. A lit- 
tle warm water may be given at firft ; then cover the 
lick with an extraordinary quantity of bed-clothes ; 
when Ihe becomes warm, the vomiting ceafes; then a 
grain of opium may be taken, and if the complaints 
are not relieved thereby in half an hour, it may be 
repeated.—A day or two after a warm purge ftiould 
be taken : Tried.} 
* [Take one table-fpoonfnl of caflor oil, mixed with a fpoonfuI*of le- 
mon-juice or fharp vinegar (weetened, every hour, until it purge*. This 
is a fafe, cafy, and effeftual purge, not only in all thole complaints where 
the bowels are the feat of difeafe, bin alfo in the intermitting and 
remitting bilious fevers incident to warm climates.] 
t Is attended with a violent pain about the pit of the ftcraach, with, 
great linking of the fpiritf, and often with greenifh vomitings. 39. A Nervous Colic. * 
Ufe the cold bath daily for three or four weeks. 
40. Colic from the Fumes of Lead, or 
White Lead, Verdigreafe, &c. 
In the fit, drink freih melted butter, and then vomit 
■with warm water; 
* To prevent or cure. Breakfaft daily on fat 
broth, and ufe oil of fweet almonds frequently. 
Smelters of metals, plumbers, bcc. may be in a 
good meafure preferved from the poifonous fumes that 
furround them, by breathing through cloth or flannel 
mufflers twice or thrice doubled, dipt in a folution of 
fea-falt, or fait of tartar, and then dried. Thefe muf- 
flers might alfo be of great ufe in many fimilar cafes. 
41. Windy Colic. 
Parched peas eaten freely, have had the moft hap- 
py effe&s, when all other means have failed. 
42. To Prevent the ill effedls of Cold. 
The moment a perfon gets into a houfe, with his 
hands or feet quite chilled, let him put them into a 
veffel of water, as cold as can be got, and hold them 
there till they begin to glow. This they will do in a 
minute or two. This method likewife effectually pre- 
vents chilblains. 
* This Tome term the dry belly-ach. It often continues feveral days 
with little urine, and obftinate collivenefs. 
A colic with purging Tome term the watery gripes. 43. A Confumption. 
One in a deep confumptlon was advifed to drink 
nothing but water, and eat nothing but water-gruel, 
without fait or fugar. In three months time he was 
perfectly well. 
Take no food but new butter-milk, churned In a 
bottle, ard white bread.—1 have known this fuc- 
cefsful. 
Or, ufe as common drink, fpring-water, and new 
milk, each a quart; and fugar-candy two ounces. 
Or, boil two handfuls of forrel in a pint of whey. 
Strain it, and drink a glafs thrice a day: Tried. 
Or, turn a pint of ikimmed milk, with half a pint 
of fmall beer. Boil in this whey about twenty Ivy- 
leaves, and fwo or three fprigs of hyfibp. Drink half 
over night, the reft in the morning. Do this, if need- 
ful, for two months daily.—This has cured in a def- 
perate cafe : Tried. 
Or, take a cow-heel from the tripe-houfe ready 
drcfted, two quarts of new milk, two ounces of hartf- 
horn-fhaving-s, two ounces of iftnglafs, a quarter of a 
pound of fugar-candy, and a race of ginger. Put all 
thefe in a pot; and fet them in an oven after the 
bread is drawn. Let it continue there till the oven is 
near cold; and let the patient live on this.—I have 
known this cure a deep confumptlon more than once. 
Or, every morning cut up a little turf of frelh earth, 
and lying down, breathe into the hole for a quarter 
of an hour—1 have known a deep confumptlon cured 
thus. 
“ Mr. Mafters of Evefham, was fo far gone in a 
confumptlon, that he could not Hand alone. I advifed 
him to iofe fix ounces of blood every day for a fort- 
night, if he lived fo long ; and then every other day; 
then every third day ; then every fifth day, for the 
fame time. In three month he was well.” (Dr. 
Dover.) Tried, This prefeription will not be Die in any cafe but where the pulfe continues pretty ftrong, 
anti there are figns of inflammation. 
Or, throw frankincenfe on burning coals, and re- 
ceive the fmoke daily through a proper tube into the 
lung-s: Tried. 
Or, take in for a quarter of an hour, morning and 
evening, the fleam of white rofin and bees-wax, boiling 
on a hot fire-fliovel. This has cured one who was in 
the third ftage of a confumption. 
Or, the fleam of fweet fpirit of vitriol dropt into 
warm water. 
Or, take morning and evening, a tea-fpoonful of 
white rofin powdered and mixt with honey.—Tins cu- 
red one in lefs than a month, who was very near death. 
Or, drink thrice a day two fpoonfuls of juice of wa- 
ter-crefles.—This has cured a deep confumption. 
In the laft ftage, fuck an healthy woman daily. 
Tried by my Father. 
* For diet, ufe milk and apples, or water-gruel 
made with fine flour. Drink cyder-whey, barley-water 
Jharpened with lemon-juice, or apple-water. 
So long as the tickling cough continues, chew well 
and fwallow a mouthful or two, of a bifeuit or cruft 
of bread, twice a day. If you cannot fwallow it, 
fpit it out. This will always fhorten the fit, and 
would often prevent a confumption. See extract from 
Dr. Tilfot, page 33. 
44. Convulfions 
* Or, take a tea-fpoonful of valerian root powder- 
ed, in a cup of water, every evening. 
* Or, half a drachm of miffelto powdered every fix 
hours, drinking after it a draught of ftrong iufuuon 
thereof. 
Ufe the cold bath 45. Convulfions in Children, 
Scrape piony-roots frefh digged. Apply what you 
have fcraped off to the foies of the feet. It helps im- 
mediately. Tried. 
46, Convuhions in the Bowels of Children. 
Give a child a quarter old, a fpoonful of the juice 
of pellitory of the wall, two or three times a day. It 
goes through at once, but purges no more, Ufe the 
fyrup, if the juice cannot be had. 
47. Corns (to prevent.) 
Frequently wafli the feet in cold water 
48. Corns (to Cure.) 
Apply frefh every morning the yeaft of fmall beer, 
fpread on a rag : 
Or, after paring them dole, apply bruifed ivy-leaves 
daily, and in fifteen days they will drop out ; Tried. 
Some corns are cured by a pitch plafter. 
All are greatly eafed by fieeping the feet in hot 
water wherein oatmeal is boiled. This alfo helps dry 
and hot feet. 
49. Coftivenefs. 
Rife early every morning : 
Or, boil in a pint and a half of broth, half a hand- 
ful of mallow leaves chopt: ftrain this and drink it, 
before you eat any thing tlfc. Do this frequently, if 
needful. Or, breakfafi twice a week or oftener, on water- 
gruel with currants: Tried. 
* Or, take the bignefs of a large nutmeg of cream 
of tartar mixt with honey, as often as you need. 
* Or, take daily two hours before dinner, a fmall 
tea-cupful of ftewed prunes : 
Or, ufe for common drink, water, or treacle-beer, 
impregnated with fixed air : 
Or, live upon bread, made of wheat flour, with all 
the bran in it. 
Or, boil an ounce and a half of tamarinds in three 
pints of water to a quart. In this drained, when cold, 
infufe all night two drachms of fena, and one drachm 
of red rofe leaves. Drink a cup every morning when 
coltive.—See Dr. Tiffot. 
50. A Cough 
Make a hole through a lemon, and fill it with honey. 
Roaft it, and catch the juice. Take a tea-fpoonful of 
this frequently : Tried. 
[Or, take a table-fpoonful of molaffes each night 
and morning, and drink, in common, molafles and 
water: Tried.] 
Or, take Spanifii liquorice two ounces, fait of tartar 
hall an ounce ; boil the liquorice in three pints of wa- 
ter to a quart. Add the fait to it when it is blood- 
warm. Drink two fpoonfuls of this every two hours. 
It feldom fails ; Tried.—I have known this cure an. 
inveterate moifl afihma. 
Or, at lying down keep a little ftick-liquorice like 
horfe-radifh, between the cheek and the gums. I 
believe this never Ails. 
Or, peel and dice a large turnip, fpread coarfe fu- 
gar between the dices, and let it ftand in a difir till all 
tire juice drains down. lake a fpoonful of this when- 
ever you cough : 
* Or, take a fpoonful of fpirit of horshound. morn,- 
ing and evening; Tried.-* Or, take from fifteen to twenty drops of elixir of 
vitriol, in aglafsof water, thrice a-day. This is ufe- 
ful when the cough is attended with coftivenefs, and 
relaxation of the flomach and lungs. 
Or, powder an ounce of fpermaceti fine. Work it 
in a marble mortar with the yolk of a new laid egg. 
Mix them in a pint of white wine and take a fmall 
glafs every three hours. 
Or, drink water whitened with oat-meal four times 
a-day. 
Or, keep a piece of barlcy-fugar, or fugar-candy 
conftantly in the mouth. 
51. Violent Coughing from a {harp and 
thin Rheum. 
Work into old conferve of rofes, as much as you 
can of pure frankincenfe powdered as fine as polfible. 
Take a bolus of this twice or thrice a-day. It eafes 
prefen-ly, and cures in two or three weeks. 
Or, take half a grain of the infpiffated milky juice 
of fowthiftle, once or twice a-day. It has the ano- 
dyne and antifpafmodic properties of opium, without 
its narcotic effe&s. Or, it may be made into lauda- 
num, in the fame manner that opium is, and five or 
fix drops taken on a lump of fugar, thrice a-day. 
The milky juice of all the fowthiftlcs, dandelions, and 
lettuces, have nearly the fame virtues. 
* Or, ufe milk-diet as much as poffible. 
52. The Cramp (to prevent.) 
Tie your garter i'mooth and tight under your knee at 
going to bed : 1 never knew this fail. 
Or, take half a pint of tar-water, morning and 
evening; 
* Or, be eledlrlfied through the part that ufes to be 
affedled. This generally prevents it for a month; 
fometimes for a twelvemonth. Or, to one ounce and a half of fpirits of turpentine, 
add flour of brimftone and fulphur vivum, of each half 
an ounce ; fmell to it at night, three or four times. 
53. The Cramp (to cure.) 
* Chafe the part with hungary-water : 
Or, hold a roll of brimftone in your hand. I have 
frequently done this with fuccefs. 
54. A Cut. 
Keep it clofed with your thumb a quarter of ail 
hour. Then double a rag five or fix times ; dip it in 
cold water, and bind it on ; Tried. 
55. Deafnefs. 
Be electrified through the ear : Tried, 
Or, ufe the cold bath : 
Or, put a little fait into the car: 
Or, drop into it a tea-fpoonful of fait water : 
* Or, three or four drops of onion-juice, at lying 
down, and flop it with a little wool. 
56. Deafnefs from Wax, 
* Syringe the ear with warm water: Tried. 
57. Deafnefs with a dry Ear. 
* Mix brandy and fweet oil : dip black wool in this, 
and put it into the ear. When it grows dry, walh it 
well in brandy ; dip it and put it in again. £8. Delivery. 
After delivery in child-birth, the mother’s milk is 
the only proper purge for the child. Let it begin to 
luck ten or twelve hours after the birth. 
59. Diabetes.* 
Drink wine boiled with ginger, as much and as of- 
ten as your ftrength will bear. Let your drink be milk 
and water. All milk-meats are good : 
* Or, drink three or four times a-day, a quarter of 
a pint of alum polfet, putting' three drachms of alum 
to four pints of milk. It feldom fails to cure in eight 
or ten days. (Dr. Mead.) 
CO. The Dropfy.f 
Ufe the cold bath daily, after purging : 
* Or, rub the fwelled parts with fallad-oil by a ■warm 
hand, at leaf! an hour a-day. This has done wonders 
in fome cafes : 
Or, cover the whole belly with a large new fpohge 
dipt in ftrong lime-water, and then fqueezed out. 
This bound on often cures, even without any fenfible 
evacuation of water. 
Or, apply green dock-leaves to the joints and foies 
of the feet, changing them once a-day. 
Or, mix half an ounce of amber with a quart of wine- 
vinegar. Heat a brick (only not red hot) and put it 
into a tub. Pour them upon it, and hold the parts 
fwelled over the fmoke, covering the tub ciofe to keep 
* A diabetes Is a frequent and large difeharge of pale and fweetilh 
urine, attended with a conftant thirft, and a wafting of the whole body. 
(■ A dropfy is a preternatural collcftion of water in the head, breaft, 
hefty, or all over the body. It is attended with a continual thirft. The 
part fwelled pits ii'you profs it with your lingers. The urine is pale aud 
little. in the fmoke. The water will come out incredibly, 
and the patient be cured : Tried. 
Or, eat a cruft of bread e-fery morning falling : Tried. 
Or, mix a pound of the coarfeft fugar with a pint of 
juice of pellitory of the wall, bruifed in a marble mor- 
tar. Boil it as long as any fcum rifes. When cool, bot- 
tle and cork it. If very bad, take three fpoonfuls at 
night, and two in the morning, it feldom fails : Tried. 
Or, make tea of roots of dwarf elder. It works by 
urine. Every twelve or fourteen minutes (that is, af- 
ter every difeharge) drink a tea-cup full.—I have 
known a dropfy cured by this in twelve hours time. 
One was cured, by taking a drachm of nitre every 
morning in a little ale. 
Tar-water drank twice a-day has cured many ; fo 
has an infulion of juniper berries roafted, and made 
into a liquor like coffee : 
Or, three fpoonfuls of the juice of leeks, or elder 
leaves : Tried. 
* Or, half a pint of decoftion of butchers broom 
(intermixing purges twice or thrice a week.) The 
proper purge is ten grains of jalap, with fix of powder- 
ed ginger. It may be encreafed or leflened according 
to the ftrength of the patient. 
Or, of the decodlion of the tops of oak-boughs. 
This cured an inveterate dropfy in fifteen days : 
Or, take fena, cream of tartar and jalap, half an 
ounce of each. Mix them, and take half a drachm e- 
very morning in broth. It uftially cures in twenty days. 
This is nearly the fame with Dr. Ward’s powder. I 
fuppofe he took it from hence. He fays it feldom fails, 
either in the watery or windy dropfy. 
Or, fteep half an ounce of jalap in a quarter of 
Geneva for twelve hours. Draw it off. Divide it in- 
to three parts, and take it every other morning. 
Then put a large fpoonful of fyrup ef marlh mallows 
irtto half a pint of ftale beer, and when it has boiled a 
little, cool it, and drink it at lying down in bed. Do 
this three times. This has cured many. Or, be eleclrified : This cures dropfres fuppofed in- 
curable. 
How amazingly little is yet known, even of the 
■ human body I Have not dropsical persons been continu- 
ally advised to abstain from drink as much as possible? 
But how can we reconcile this with the following un- 
deniable facts, published in the medical tranfadfions ? 
Jane Roberts, aged twenty, was at lad conftrained 
to take to her bed by a confirmed afcltcs anafarca. 
In this defperate cafe, die drank as much as fire would, 
fall of fmall beer ; and when that failed, of thin milk. 
After a while her Ikin cracked In many places : and. 
ihe continued drinking and leaking till die was quite 
well. 
A middle-aged man in the wed of England, drank 
every day five or fix quarts of cyder : and without any 
other medicine, was totally cured in a few weeks time 
of a dropfy long fuppofed to be Incurable. 
A farmer aged feventy, in a confirmed afcites, was 
given over for dead. Being defperate, he drank three 
quarts of cold water, every four and twenty hours. 
His whole food meantime was fca-bifcuit, fomctimes 
with a little butter. For fixteen days he feemed worfe. 
Then he difcharged for near a week a vad quantity of 
water, and was foon free from his difeafe, which ne- 
ver returned. 
61. Drowned. 
Rub the trunk of the body all over with hot fait. 
It frequently recovers them that feem dead.—See ex- 
trafh from Dr. TifTot, page 150. 
And blow into the lungs. 
62. The Ear-ach, without Inflarnjnation. 
Rub the ear hard a quarter of an hour ; Tried, 
* Cr, be ele&rlfied ; Or, put in a replied fig, or onion, as hot as may 
be : Tried. 
Or, blow the fmoke of tobacco flrongly into it. 
But if the ear-ach is caufed by an inflamation of 
the uvula, it is cured in two or three hours, by receiv- 
ing into the mouth the fleam of bruifed hemp-feed, 
boiled in water. 
63. Ear-ach from Cold. 
Bail rue, or rsfemary, or garlic, and let the fleam 
go into the ear through a funnel. 
64. Ear-ach from Heat 
Apply cloths four times doubled and dipt in cold 
water, changing them when warm, for half an hour. 
65. Hard Wax in the Ear, 
Is bell dlfiblved by warm water. 
66. Eyes bleared 
Drop into them the juice of crab-apples 
67. A blood-fhot Eye 
* Apply linen rags dipt in cold water two or three 
hours: 
Or, blow in white fugar-candy, finely powdered : 
Or, apply boiled hyffop as a poultice. This has a 
Wonderful efficacy. v 
68. A Bruife in the Eye 
Apply as a plafter, conferve of rofes. 69. Clouds flying before the Eye. 
1 Take a drachm of powdered betony every morning. 
Or, be electrified. 
70. Blindnefs, 
Is often cured by cold bathing : 
Or, by electrifying ; Tried. This has cured even 
a gutta ferena of twenty-four years handing. 
71. Dull Sight. 
Drop in two or three drops of juice of rotten ap- 
ples often. 
72. Films. 
Mix iulce of ground-ivy, with a little honey, and 
two or three grains of bay-falt.—Drop it In, morning 
and evening. 
73. Hot or fharp Humours 
Apply a few drops of double-refined fugar, melted 
in brandy ; Tried. 
Or, boil a handful of bramble-ieawK with a little 
alum, in a quart of fpring-water, toTa pint. Drop 
this frequently into the eye. This Hkewife cures can- 
kers or any fores. 
Or, lay a thin dice of ra*v beef on the nape of the 
neck : Tried. 
74. Eyes or Eye-lids inframed. 
Apply as a poultice, boiled, roahed, or rotten ap- 
ples, warm. Or, wormwood-tops with the yolk of an egg; This 
will hardly fail. 
* Or, beat up the white of an egg with two fpoon- 
fuls of white rofe-water, into a white froth. Apply 
this on a fine rag, changing it fo that it may not grow 
dry, till the eye or eye-lid is well : Tried. 
* Or, diffolve an ounce of fine gum arable in two 
or three fpodnfuls of fpring water ; put a drop into the 
inner corner of the eye, from the point of a hair pen- 
cil, four or, five times a-day. At the fame time take 
as much fait petre as will lie upon a fix-pence, dilTolv- 
ed in a glals of water, three or four times a-day ; ab- 
flaining from all ftrong liquids as much as pojfible, 
till cured.—White bread poultices, applied to the eyes 
in an inflamed flate, frequently occafion total blindnefs, 
* After the inflammation is fubfided, if weaknefs 
{fill remains, dip a finger in the white copperas eye- 
water, and rub round the eye, three or four times 
a-day.—N. B. All acrid eye-waters, and powders, put 
into the eyes when they are inflamed, horribly increafe 
both the pain and inflammation. 
75. A Lachrymal Fiftula,* 
Apply a poultice of fine leaves of rue : 
Or, wafh the eye morning and evening with a de- 
codlion of quince-leaves. 
76. Pearl in the Eye. 
Apply a drop of juice of celandine with a feather 
thrice a-day : 
* Or difiblve a little fal ammoniac in rofe-water. 
Keep this three days in a copper vefiel, Drop it twice 
a day into the eye. 
•This d;forder in the inner corner of the eye, caufcs the tears to 
flow involuntarily. When it is confirmed, only a furgeon can cure it. Or, reduce Separately, to the fineft powder pofiible, 
an equal weight of loaf-fugar, cream of tartar, and 
bole armoniac ; mix them together, and put a little 
into the eye (without blowing it in) three or four 
times a-day. 
77. Sore Eyes. 
Drink eye-bright tea, and wafh the eyes with it. 
78. An excellent Eye-Water. 
* Put half an ounce of lapis calaminaris powdered, 
into half a pint of French white wine, and as much 
white rofe-water : drop a drop or two into the corner 
of the eye. It cures forenefs, weaknefs, and mod dif- 
eafes of the eyes. I have known it cure total blindnel*. 
79. Another. 
* Boil very lightly one tea-fpoonful of white cop- 
peras fcraped, and three fpoonfuls of white fait in 
three pints of fpring water. When cold, bottle it in 
large vials without ftraining. Take up the vial foftly, 
and put a drop or two in the eye morning and evening. 
|It answers the intention of almost all the pre- 
ceding medicines: it takes away redness, or any sore- 
ness whatever: it cures pearls-, rheums, and often, 
blindness itself. 
80. Another. 
Stamp and drain ground-ivy, celandine, and dailies, 
an equal quantity : add a little rofe-water and loaf-fu- 
gar. Drop a drop or two at a time in the eye, and 
it takes away all manner of inflammation, fmarting, 
itching, fpots, webs, or any other diforder whatioe- 
ver, yea, though the fight were almoft gone. 81. An Eye-water, which was ufed by 
Sir Stephen Fox, when he was lixty years of age, 
and could hardly lee with the help of fpeftacles; but 
hereby in fome time he recovered his fight, and could 
rei'd the fmalleft print without fpedf acles, till above 
eighty. 
Take fix ounces of rectified fpirlts of wine, difiblve 
in it one drachm of camphire, then add two fniall 
handfuls of dried elder flowers. In twenty-fours hours 
after it is infilled, it is ready for ul’e. Take out a lit- 
tle in a tea-fpoon ; dip your finger in it, and bathe 
your forehead, over your eyes, and each temple with 
it feveral times, morning and night, and twice more 
in the day conftantly. Mean time dip a foft rag in 
dead fmall beer, new milk warm, and daub each eye 
a dozen times gently, morning and evening. 
If it is a watery humour, you may with your finger 
wet the eye-lids two or three times a-piece : but be 
fure to fhut your eyes, for it makes them fmart and 
burn exceffively. If you have the tooth-ach or fwellcd 
face, rub it well in on the and it will take away 
the pain. It will cure any bruife alfo, if ufed imme- 
diately : Tried. 
It will cure any inflammation in the eyes. 
82. Weak Eyes. 
* Walk the head daily with cold water: Tried. 
[Or, take of white vitriol half a drachm, rofe wa- 
ter lix ounces to dilfolve it, and filter the water ; to 
touch the eye often.—The temples and round the eye, 
may be touched with camphorated fpirits. 
N. B. If the eyes are inflamed, the patient fhould 
be blooded or purged; and if neceffary, blifters behind 
the ears, or a ieton to the back of the neck.] 83. Fainting on letting Blood, 
Is prevented by taking before it fome good broth 
* Or, by lying on the bed, during the operation. 
84. The failing Sicknefs.* 
* Or, ufe the cold bath for a month daily : 
Or, take a tea-fpoonful of piony-root dried and gta- 
ted fine, morning and evening for three months : 
* Or, half a fpoonful of valerian root powdered.— 
It often cures in twice taking : 
Or, half a pint of tar-water, morning and evening, 
for three months; 
Be electrified : Tried. 
Or, a glafs of juice of pellitory of the wall, every 
morning : Tried. 
Or, take five or fix drops of laudanum faffing, for 
fix or feven mornings. This has cured many : 
* Or, ufe an entire-milk diet for three months : It 
feldom fails. 
Or, leaves of afiarabacca powdered.—This is 
the famous Major’s fnufF. 
One who is fubjedl to the falling fickncis, may pre- 
vent a fit if he feels it coming, by this fimple experiment. 
Let him always carry witli him a piece of metal as broad 
as he is able to Hold between his teeth, when his jaws 
are ftretched to the utmoft. When he feels the fit ap- 
proaching, let him immediately put this between his 
teeth, fo as to keep his jaws at their utmoft ftretch. In 
about a minute this will bring him quite to himfelf, 
and prevent the fit for that time. 
If one put this metal between the teeth of one that 
is in the fit, and force them open, till his jaws are at 
the utmoft ftretch, the fit will immediately go off, and 
the patient very foon recover. 
* In the Falling Sicknefs the patient falls to the ground, cither quite 
Aiff; or convulfed all over, utterly feaelefs, gnaftimg his teeth, and foam- 
ing at the mouth. 85. The falling of the Fundament 
Boil a handful of red rofe-leaves in a quarter of a 
pint of red wine : dip a cloth in it, and apply it as hot 
as can be borne. Do this till all is ufed.* 
86. A falling down of the Womb, 
May be cured in the manner laft mentioned : 
* Or, wear a peflbry of cork, and take twice a-day 
a tea-cupful of the decodion of the bark, with ten 
drops of elixir of vitriol. 
87. Extreme Fat 
* Ufe a total vegetable diet. I know one -who was 
entirely cured of this, by living a year thus : Site 
breakfafted and flipped on milk and water (with bread) 
and dined on turnips, carrots, or other roots, drink- 
ing water. 
88. A Fever 
(In the beginning of any fever, if the ftomach is un- 
cafy, vomit; if the bowels, purge ; if the pulfe be hard, 
full or ftrong, bleed.) 
Drink a pint and a half of cold water lying down 
in bed ; I never knew it do hurt. 
* Or, thin water-gruel fweetened with honey, with 
one or two drachms of nitre in each quart. 
td* f he beftof all julapsin a’feveris this : Toafta 
large thin dice of bread, without burning ; put it hot 
into a pint of cold water : then let it on the fire till it 
is pretty hot. In a dry heat it may be given cold, in a 
moift heat, warm ; the more largely the better: Tried. 
N 
* [Oil or greafe the ends of the fingers well, and reduce it immediate- 
ly by a gentle continued prellure on the part. This can always callly be 
done as foot! as the accident happens-] Or, for a change, ufe pippin or wood-forrcl tea : 
or pippin poffet-drink : or wood-forrcl polfet-drink. 
(To prevent catching any infectious fever, do not 
breathe near the face of the fick perfon, neither fwal- 
low your fpittle while in the room. Infedlion feizes 
the flomach firft.) 
* Or, ufe Dr. Boerhaave’s feverpowder, viz. Eight 
ounces of nitre, a quarter of an ounce ®f camphire, 
half a quarter of an ounce of faffron, and eight grains 
of cochineal. Thefe are to be powdered, mixt toge- 
ther, and kept dry in a bottle. Ten grains taken on 
going to bed abates feverifh heat, and procures rcfl. 
Ten g-rains are to be taken every three or four hours 
for a continued fever. 
89. A High Fever, 
Attended with a delirium and vigilia, has been cured 
by plunging into cold water ; which is a fafe and fure 
remedy in the beginning of any fever. 
Such a delirium is often cured by applying to the 
top of the head, a treacle plafter ; Tried. 
# 
90. A Fever with Pains in the Limbs 
Take twenty drops of fpirits of hartfhorn in a cup 
of water twice or thrice in twenty-four hours : 
Or, drink largely of cinquefoil tea. 
91. Rafh F ever. 
Drink every hour a fpoonful of juice of ground-ivy. 
It often cures in twenty-four hours.—Ufe the decoc- 
tion when you have not the juice. 
92. A Slow Fever. 
Ufe the cold bath for two or three weeks daily. [In putrid or nervous fevers, though they do not in- 
termit, yet after proper evacuations, the bark may be 
advantageoully given, thus: Take of the powder of 
the bark two ounces, orange-peel an ounce and a half, 
Virginia fnake-root three drachms, Englifh faffron 
four fcruples, cochineal two fcruples ; infufe them in 
twenty ounces of bell diddled fpirits : and the Tick 
may take from a drachm to half an ounce occafionally 
in his lucid intervals.—Huxham.—Tried.] 
93. A Worm Fever 
Boil a handful of rue and wormwood in water ; fo- 
ment the belly with the decoction, and apply the boil- 
ed herbs as a poultice ; repeat the application night and 
morning. This frequently brings away worms from 
children, who will take no internal medicine; and is 
likewife lerviceable, if the fever be of the putrid kind. 
94. A Filtula 
Wafh mufcle (hells clean : burn them to powder ; 
fift them fine; mix them with hog’s-lard ; fpread it ou 
clean wafhed leather, and apply it. This cured one 
that was though to be at the point of death. 
N. B. This cures the plies. 
Or, have a veffel fo contrived, that you may (it with 
the part in cold water, a quarter of an hour every morn- 
ing. I have known a gentleman of feventy years cured 
hereby. 
Or, put a large (lone of tmflacked lime into four 
quarts of water, let It (land one night; take four oun- 
ces of roch-alum, and four ounces of white copperas, 
calcine them to drynefs, then powder them as fine as 
poflible ; take three pints of the above water, and put 
the powder into it, and boil it for half an hour, then 
let it cool and bottle it for ufe. Let the fiftula be 1'y- 
ringed with this often, a little warm : and make a tent to £t the place, and dip it in the water, and apply it 
twice a-day. Cover it over with a plafter of diaculum. 
This water will deftroy the calloiity of the edges of 
the fiftula, which other wife would prevent its healing, 
and if managed as above, will heal it up at the fame 
time ; but an operation is the only certain means. 
95. To deftroy Fleas and Bugs. 
Cover the floor of the room with leaves of alder, 
gathered while the dew hangs upon them : adhering to 
thefe, they are killed thereby. 
Or, powder flavtfacre, and fprinkle it on the body, 
or on the bed. 
93. Flegm. 
To prevent or cure, take a fpoonful of warm water, 
the firfl thing in the morning. 
97. Flooding (in Lying-in.) 
Cover the body with cloths dipt in vinegar and wa. 
ter, changing them as they grow warm. Drink cool- 
ing, acid liquors. 
This is a complaint which is never to be thought lit- 
tle of. Sometimes a violent flooding comes on before 
delivery ; and the only way to fave both the mother 
and child, is to deliver the woman immediately : which 
being done, the flooding will generally ceafe. Some- 
times a flight flooding comes on feme weeks before la- 
bour ; and here, if the patient be kept cool, her diet 
light, and fmall dofes of nitre often repeated (an 
ounce divided into thirty parts, and one given every 
four hours) fhe will frequently go her full time and do 
•well: but if it fhould become exceffive, delivery fhould 
be effected as foon as may be. 
* If a flooding fhould come on after delivery, the pati- 
ent fhould be laid with her head low, kept cool, and be in all refpedls treated as for an exceffive flux of the men- 
fes. Linen cloths which have been wrung out of vine- 
gar and water, Ihould be applied to the belly, the loins, 
and the thighs. Thefe mull be changed as they grow 
dry ; and may be difcontinued as foon as the flooding 
abates. Sometimes the following mixture will do great 
things, viz. fyrup of poppies, two ounces ; acid elixir 
of vitriol one drachm. Mix, and take two table-fpoon- 
fuls every hour. But large dofes of nitre given often 
(a fcruple every hour) is generally the moll efficacious. 
But when all other things feem to have no effect, 
cold water dallied upon the patient’s belly will Hop 
the flooding immediately. 
98. A Flux 
Receive the fmoke of turpentine caft on burning 
coals. This cures alfo the bloody flux, and the falling 
of the fundament. 
Or, put a large brown toaft into three quarts of wa- 
ter, with a drachm of cochineal powdered, and a 
drachm of fait of wormwood. Drink it all in "as (hurt 
a time as you conveniently can. 
|0“ This rarely fails to cure all fluxes, cholera mor- 
bus, yea, and inflammations of the bowels : Tried. 
Or, Take a fpoonful of plantane-feed bruifed, morn- 
ing and evening, till it flops : 
* Or, ten grains of ipecacuana, three mornings 
fucceffively. It is likewife excellent as a fudorific. 
Or, boil four ounces of rafped logwood, or frefli 
logwood chips, in three quarts of water to two ; {train 
it and drink a quarter of a pint, fweetened with loaf 
fugar, warm, twice a day. It both binds and heals : 
Or, take a fmall tea-qupful of it every hour : this, is 
to be ufed in the end of the complaint. 
Or, boil the fat of a breaft of mutton in a quart of 
water for an hour. Drink the broth as foon as you can 
conveniently. This will cure the mofl inveterate flux: 
Tried.—See extract from Dr. Tiflot, page 124. 99. A Bloody Flux, 
[Ts attended with a fever, griping, or great pain in 
the inteflines.—As this fever is nature’s effort to dlf- 
charge foxne offenfive matter by ftool, therefore often 
it will be neceffary to affift her by bleeding and purg- 
ing, or laxative medicines ; or elfe it will be unfafe to 
flop the flux, but when the former medicines have 
been ufed with mutton broth ; the drink may be wa- 
ter boiled with one fourth milk, and drank cold. In 
old dyfenteries, fruit and milk may be a proper diet ; 
Tried.] 
Or, take a large apple, and at the top pick out all 
the core, and fill up the place with a piece of honey- 
comb (the honey being flrained out ) roafl the apple in 
embers and eat it, and this will flop the flux imme- 
diately : 
Or, grated rhubarb, as much as lies on a (hilling, 
with half as much of grated nutmeg, in a glafs of white 
wine, at lying down every other night: Tried. 
Or, take four drops of laudanum, and apply to the 
belly a poultice of wormwood and red rofes boiled in 
milk. 
In a dyfentery, the word of all fluxes, feed on rice, 
faloup, fiigo, and fometimes beef-tea ; but no flefh. 
To flop it, take a fpoonful of fuet melted over a 
flow fire. Do not let blood. 
jCp A perfon was cured in one day, by feeding on 
r:ce-milk, and fitting a quarter of an hour in a fhallow 
tub, having in it warm water three inches deep.—See 
extradl from Dr. Tifl'ot, page 125. 
100. To prevent (or Hop a beginning) 
Gangrene. 
Foment continually with vinegar, in which drofs of 
iron (cither fparks or clinkers) has been boiled. 101. The Gout in the Stomach 
tl Diflblve two drachms of Venice treacle in a glafs 
of mountain wine. After drinking it, go to bed. 
You will be eafier in two hours, and well in fixteen.” 
(Dr. Dover.) 
Or, boil a pngil * of tanfey In a quarter of a pint of 
mountain. Drink it in bed. I believe this never fails. 
* To prevent its return, diflblve half an ounce of 
gum guaiacum in two ounces of fal volatile. Take a 
tea-fpoonful of this every morning in a glafs of ipring- 
water. 
1C?35 This helps any sharp pain in the stomach.—Dr. 
Boerhaavc, 
N. B. I knew a gentleman who was cured many 
times, by a large draught of cold water. 
102. The Gout in the Foot or Hand. 
Apply a raw, lean beef-flake. Change it once in 
twelve hours, till cured : Tried. 
103. The Gout in any Limb.f 
Rub the part with warm treacle, and then bind on 
a flannel 1'meared therewith. Repeat this, if need be, 
once in twelve hours. 
Id?® This has cured an inveterate gout in thirty-fix 
hours. 
Or, drink a pint of ftrong infufion of elder-buds, 
dry or green, morning and evening. This has cured 
inveterate gouts. 
• A Pngil is as much a* you can take up between your thumb 
and two fore-fingers. 
t Regard them not who fay, the gout ought not to be cufed. 
They mean it cannot. 1 know it cannot by their regular pre- 
fcrptiOas. But I have known it cured in many cafes, without any 
ill tffcfts I'oliowiii". I have cored rnyfclf fcvsral times. Or, at fix in the evening, undrefs, and wrap your- 
felf up in blankets. Then put your legs up to the 
knees in water, as hot as you can bear it. As it cools 
let hot water be poured in, fo as to keep you in a llrong 
Iweat till ten. Then go into a bed well warmed, and, 
iweat till morning. 1 have known this cure an inve- 
terate gout, in a perfon above fixty, who lived eleven 
years after. The very matter of the gout is frequent- 
ly deftroyed by a Heady ufe of Mynficht’s elixir of 
vitriol. 
[Or, take gum guaiacum four ounces, fait petre two 
ounces, diffolve them fourteen days in two pounds of 
Jamaica fpirits ; take two fpoonfuls morning and even- 
ing. But the grand medicine will be temperance and 
exercife.] 
104. The Gravel. 
.Eat largely of fpinach : 
Or, drink largely of warm water fweetened with 
honey : 
Or, of pellitory of the wrall tea, fo fweetened : 
Or, infufe an ounce of wild parflcy feeds in a pint 
of white wine for twelve days. Drink a glafs of it 
falling, three months. To prevent its return, break- 
faft for three months on agrimony tea. It intirely 
cured me twenty years ago, nor have I had the lead; 
fymptom of it fmce. 
105. The Green Sicknefs.* 
Take a cup of decodlion of lignum guaiacum, 
(commonly called lignum vitse) morning and evening : 
Or, grind together into a line powder three ounces 
of the fineh heel-filings, and two ounces of red fugar- 
candy. Take from a fcruple to half a drachm every 
morning. I See Dr. Tiffot. 
• [Is known by a depraved appetite, Ihortncfs of breath, pal- 
lid ceuntenance, loft fuelling of the body, palpitation of the hesxt. 
and retention of the njenfes.] 106. To kill Animalcula that caufe the 
Gums to wafte away from the Teeth. 
Gargle thrice a day with fait and water 
107. To make the Hair grow 
Wadi it every night with a ftrong decoClion of 
rofemary. Dry it with flannel; Tried. 
108. The Heacl-ach. 
Rub the head for a quarter of an hour ; Tried. 
Or, be electrified: Tried. 
Or, apply to each temple the thin yellow rind of a 
lemon, newly pared off: 
* Or, pour upon, the palm of the hand a little bran- 
dy and fome zed* of lemon, and hold it to the fore- 
head : 
Or, a little aether: 
Or, if you have catched cold, boil a handful of rofe- 
mary in a quart of water. Put this in a mug, and 
hold your head (covered with a napkin) over the 
fleam, as hot as you can bear* Repeat this till the 
pain ceafes : Tried. 
Or, fnuff up the nofe camphorated fpirits of lavender; 
Or, a little juice of horfe-radilh. 
109. A Chronical Head-ach. 
Keep your feet in warm water, a quarter of an hour 
before you go to bed, for two or three weeks : Tried. 
Or, wear tender hemlock leaves under the feet, 
changing them daily : 
* Or, order a tea-kettle of cold water to be poured 
on your head, every morning, in a llender dream ; 
• Zeft is the juice of the peel (queezed out. Or, take a large tea-cupful of carduus tea, without 
fugar, falling, for fix or feven mornings : Tried. 
110. Head-ach from Heat 
Apply to the forehead cloths dipt in cold water, for 
an hour ; Tried. 
111. A nervous Head-ach 
Dry and powder an ounce of marjoram and half an 
ounce of affarabacca : mix them and take them as 
fnuff. keeping the ears and throat warm. This is of 
great ufe even in a cancer : but it will fufficeto take a 
fmall pinch every other night, lying down in bed. 
112. A violent Head-ach 
Take of white wine vinegar and water, each three 
fpoonfuls ; with half a fpoonful of Hungary water. 
Apply this twice a-day to the eye-lids and temples. 
113. A Hemicrania.* 
Ufe cold bathing. 
Or, apply to that part of the head lhavcd, a blifter. 
114. Stoppage in the Head. 
Snuff up juice of primrofe, keeping the head warm 
115. The Heart-Burning.\ 
Drink a pint of cold water : Tried. 
Or, drink flowly decodlion of camomile flowers 
• This is a head-ach which affefts but one fide of the head, 
f A fliarp, gnawing pain in the orifice of the ftomaefc. Or, chew five or fix pepper-corns a little : then 
fwallow them : 
Or, chew fennel or parfiey, and fwallow your fplt- 
tle.—-Sometimes a vomit is needful. 
Or, a piece of Spanifh liquoric 
116. The Hiccough (to prevent.) 
Infufe a fcniple of muik in a quart of mountain 
wine, and take a fmall glafs every morning. 
117. (To Cure.) 
Swallow a mouthful of water, flopping the mouth 
and ears : Tried. 
Or, take any thing that makes you fneeze : 
Or, two or three preferved damfons : 
* Or three drops of oil of cinnamon, on a lump of 
fugar : Tried. 
Or, ten drops of chemical oil of amber dropt on fu- 
gar, and then mixed with a little water. 
118. Hoarfenefs. 
Rub the foies of the feet before the fire, with gar- 
lic and lard well beaten together, over night. The 
hoarfenefs will be gone next morning : Tried. 
Or, take a pint of cold -water lying down : 
Or, fwallow llowly the juice of radifhes : 
Or, half a pint of muftard-whcy, lying down : 
Or, a tea-fpoonful of confervc of rofes, every night; 
Tried. 
Or, dry nettle-roots in an oven. Then powder them 
finely, and mix with an equal quantity of treacle. 
Take a tea-fpoonful of this twice a-day : 
Or, boil a large handful of wheat-bran in a quart of 
water ; drain, and fweeten it with honey. Sip of it 
frequently. 119. Hypochondriac and Hyfteric 
Diforders. 
Exerclfe, and a little good wine. Five grains of 
afafoetida, twice a-day. 
Or, cold bathing.* 
120. The Jaundice. 
Wear leaves of celandine upon, and under the feet: 
Or, take a fmall pill of Caftile foap every morning, 
for eight or ten days : Tried. 
Or, beat the white ef an egg thin ; take it moring 
and evening inaglafs of water. I. 
Or, half a pint of ftrong decoftion of nettles : Or, 
of burdock-leaves. 
Or, boil three ounces of burdock-root, in two 
quarts of water to three pints. Drink a tea-cupful of 
this every morning. 
121. Jaundice in Children 
* Take half an ounce of fine rhubarb, powdered. 
Mix with it thoroughly, by beating, two handfuls of 
good well cleanfed currants. Of this give a tea-fpoon- 
ful every morning. 
122. The Iliac Paffion.f 
* Apply warm flannels foaked in fpirits of wine: 
Or, hold a live puppy conftantly on the belly. (Dr. 
Sydenham.) 
Or, immerge up to the breaft in a warm bath : 
Or, take, ounce by ounce, a pound and a half of 
quickfilver See Dr. Tiffot, page 120. 
* In the abfence of an attack. 
•f In this violent kind of colis the excrements are fuppofed to be 
thrown up by the mouth ia vomiting. Inflammations In general are more certainly abated 
by fmart purging than by bleeding.* 
123. An Impofthume 
* Put the white of two leeks in a wet cloth, and fo 
roaft them in alhes, but not too much. Stamp them 
in a mortar with a little hog’s-greafe. Spread it thick, 
platter-wife, and apply it, changing It every hour, till 
all the matter be come out. I. 
124. The Itch. | 
WaCK the parts'affedfed with firong rum : Tried, 
Or, anoint them with black foap. 
* Or, fteep a fhirt half an hour in a quart of water, 
mixed with half an ounce of powdered brimftone. 
Dry it flowly, and wear it five or fix days. Some- 
times it needs repeating : Tried. 
Or, beat together the juice of two or three lemons, 
with the fame .quantity of oil of rofes. Anoint the 
parts affedled. It cures in two or three times ufing. 
125. The King’s Evil.£ 
Take as much cream of. tartar as lies on a fixpence, 
every, morning and evening : 
Or, drink for fix weeks half a pint of a ftrong de- 
coction of devd’s-bit : Tried. 
Or, ule thp diet drink, as in the article Scorbutic 
Sores. I have known this cure one whole breaft was 
as full of holes as an horley-comb ; 
o 
* [Bcildes the nfe of the firfl. fecond, and third prefcriptions, under 
this head, take caflor oil, as directed in the note to Bilious CoJic. 
t This diftcinpcr is noting but a kind of very imak .-ice, which bur- 
row under the fkin. Therefore inward medicines arc abfoiutcly needicls. 
Is it polftble any phyfician fbould be ignorant ofth s? 
t It commonly appears fir It, by the thicknefs of the lips, or a ftubfcorn 
htimbur in the eyes,' then come hard (Vcllings.ln the neck chiefly; then 
running fores. Or, fet a quart of honey by the fire to melt. When 
it is cold, ftrew into it a pound and a half of quick-lime 
beat very fine, and fifted through a hair-fieve. Stir this 
about till it boil up of itfelf Into a hard lump. Beat 
it when cold, very fine, and fift it as before. Take of 
this as much as lies on a (hilling, in a glafs of water, 
every morning, fading, an hour before breakfad, at 
four in the afternoon, and at going to bed : 
Or, make a leaf of dried burdock into a pint of tea. 
Take half a pint twice a day, for four months. I have 
known this cure hundreds. 
The bed purge for the king’s evil, is tindure of jalap, 
which is made thus:—Jalap in powder, three ounces; 
Geneva, or proof fpirits, one pint. Let them infufe 
feven days. A tea-fpoonful or tsvo is diffident for a 
child ten years old, in a morning fading : and repeat- 
ed once a week, fo as to keep the domach and bowels 
clean, will frequently cure the king’s evil. But all vi- 
olent purges, or when repeated too often, are perni- 
cious. 
126. Lamenefs, from a fixed Contraction 
of the parts.* 
Beat the yolk of a new-laid egg very thin, and by a 
fpoonful at a time, add and beat up with it three oun- 
ces of water. Rub this gently into the parts for a few 
minutes, three or four times a-day. 
127. Legs Inflamed. 
Apply fuller’s earth fpread on brown paper. It fel- 
dom fails : 
Or, bruifed turnips. 
* [Anoint the part well with Tweet oil, and rub it in with the hand, con- 
tinuing the friftion for half an hour or an hour, every night and morn» 
ing, until well. 
Or, bind the caul of a newly killed animal clofc on thtf part; to be re- 
peated if ncceffary.] 128. Legs fore and running 
Wa(li them in brandy, and apply alder leaves, chang- 
ing them twice a-day. This will dry up all the lores, 
though the legs were like an honey-comb : 1 ried. 
Or, poultice them with rotten apples ; Tried. But 
take alii) three or four purges. 
129. Leprofy.* 
Ufe the cold bath : 
Or, wafh in the fea, often and long : 
Or, mix well an ounce of pomatum, a drachm of pow- 
dered brimftone, and half an ounce of fal prunellas ; 
and anoint the parts fo long as there is need : 
Or, add a pint of juice of houi'e-leek, and half a 
pint of verjuice, to a pint and a half of poffet-dnnk. 
Drink this in twenty-four hours:—It often cures the 
quiniy, and white i’wellings on the joints : 
Or, drink half a pint of celery-whey, morning and 
evening. This has cured in a mod defperate cafe ; 
Or, drink for a month a deco&ion of burdock- 
leaves, morning and evening; Tried. 
130. Lethargy, f 
Snuff ftrong vinegar up the nofe j 
Or, take half a pint of decoction of water-creffes, 
morning and evening. 
131. Lice (to kill.) 
Sprinkle Spanlfh fnuflf over the head. 
Or, wafh it with a decoftlon of amaranth 
• In this difetde, the fkin in many parts is corered with rough, 
whitifl), fcaly puftules; and it'ihefe arc rubbed off, with a kind offcaly 
fcurf. 
t [A lethargy is a conftant inclination to doze, or b« allcep, with little 
or no fever.] 132. For one feemingly killed with Light- 
ning, a Damp, or fuffocated. 
* Plunge him immediately into cold water ; 
* Or, blow ftrongly with bellows down his throat. 
This may recover a perfon feemingly drowned. It is 
Hill better if a ftrong man blows into his mouth. 
133. Lues Venerea. 
Take an ounce of quickfilver every morning, and a 
fpoonful of aqua fulphurata in a glafs of water, at five 
in the afternoon. I have known a perfon cured by this, 
when fuppofed to be at the point of death, who had 
been infe&ed by a foul nurfe, before Ihe was a year old. 
|£~r» I infert this for the fake of fuch innocent lufferers. 
134. Lunacy. 
Give decoction of agrimony four times a-day : 
Or, rub the head feveral times a-day with vinegar : 
in which ground-ivy leaves have been infilled ; 
* Or, take daily an ounce of diftilled vinegar : 
Or, boil juice of ground-ivy with i'weet oil and white 
■wine into an ointment. Shave the head, anoint it there- 
with, and chafe it in warm every other day tor three 
weeks. Bruife alfo the leaves, and bind 'them on the 
head, and give three fpoonfuls of the juice warm every 
morning. |CJ* This generally cures melancholy. 
The juice alone, taken twice a-day, will cure. 
Or, eledrify: Tried. 
135. Ragin g M adnefs. * 
Apply to the head, cloths dipt in cold wTatcr : 
» it is a fare rale that a’l mad men are cowards, and may he conquer- 
ed by binding only, without beating. (Dr.Mead.} He alfo obl'erves.that 
blillering the head docs more harm than good. Keep the head dole 
thaved, and frequently wafliu with vinegar. * Or, fet the , patient with his head under a great 
water-fall, as long as his ftrength will bear : Or, pour 
water on his head out of a tea-kettle : 
Or, let him eat nothing but apples for a month 
Or, nothing but bread and milk ; Tried. 
136. The Bite of a Mad Dog. 
Plunge into cold water dally for twenty days, and 
keep as longunder it as poffible. 1 his has cured, 
even after the hydrophobia was begun.* 
Or, mix affies of trefoil with hog’s-lard, and anoint 
the part as foon as poffible. Repeat it twice or thrice 
at fix hours dlftance. ICT* This has cured many : and 
particularly a dog bit on the nofe by a mad dog. 
Or, mix a pound of fait with a quart of Avater. 
Squeeze, bathe, and wadi the ivound with this for an 
hour. Then bind fome fait upon it for twelve hours. 
N. B. The author of this receipt was bit six times 
by mad dogs, and always cured himself by this means. 
Or, mix powdered liver-wort, four drachms ; black 
pepper two drachms : Divide this into four parts, and 
take one in warm milk for four mornings fading. Dr. 
Mead affirms he never kneAV this fail : But it has fome-. 
times failed. 
Or, take ttvo or three fpoonfuls of the juice of rib- 
wort, morning and evening, as foon as poffible after the 
bite. Repeat this for two or three changes of the 
moon. It has not been knoivn to fail. 
[To preA'ent the diforder in. thofe Avho have been bit- 
ten ;—Cauterize the Avound, and drefs it tAVice a-day 
with digedive, and once a-day with mercurial ointment. 
Tiffot. Waft the Avound well, and drefs it everyday 
Avith fait. Keep the wound open 4-0 days.] 
0 2 
* tfihis be really a nervous diforder, ivhat wonder il it ffiould be cured 
by ccld bathing? ‘ 137. The Mealies*. 
ZCJ0' Immediately confult an honed: phyflclan : 
* Drink only thin water-gruel, or milk and water, 
the more the better ; or toad and water. 
If the cough be very troublclbme, take frequently 
a fpoonful' of barley-water fweetened with oil of new 
almonds newly drawn, mixed with fyrup of maiden-hair. 
* After the meafles, take three or four purges, and 
for feme weeks take care of catching cold, ufe light 
diet, and drink barley-water, indead of malt-drink. 
See extraft from Dr. Tiffot, page 82. 
138. Menfcs ObftrvnSled 
Be cleArified: Tried. 
Or, take half a pint of drong decoiffion of penny- 
royal, every night at going to bed : 
Or, boil five large heads of hemp, in a pint of wa- 
ter, to half. Strain it, and drink it at going to bed, 
two or three nights. It feldoni fails : Tried. 
* Or, take from three to four grains of calomel, in a 
pHl, for two or three nights, taking care not to catch 
cold. It purges : Tried. 
Let ary of these medicines be used at the regular 
times as near as can be judged.-t See Dr. Tiffot. 
139, Menfcs Profufe. 
Drink nothing but cold water, with a fpoonful of 
fine flour {lined in it. At that time drink a.glafs of 
the colded water you can get, and apply a thick cloth 
dipt in cold water : 
Or, put the feet into cold water : 
Or, apply a fpunge dipt in red wine and vinegar : 
Or, bleed in the arm. Stop the orifice often with 
the finger, and then let it bleed again : 
* This diilemper is always preceded by a violent rough, often four- 
teen days before the red Ipois come out- Or, boil four or five leaves of the red holy-oak in a 
pint of milk, with a fmall quantity of fugar. Drink 
this in the morning ; if the pcrfon can afford it, Ihe 
may add a tea-fpoonful of balm of Gilead. This doe.? 
not often fail; 
* Or, reduce to a fine powder half an ounce of alum, 
with a quarter of an ounce of dragon’s blood. In a 
violent cale, take a quarter of a drachm every half 
hour. It fcarce ever fails to flop the flux, before half 
an ounce is taken. This alfo cures the whites. 
[If the flrength will admit, take a little blood from 
the arm ; the body fhould be kept loofe. Let her 
take a tea-cupful of alum-whey every three or four 
hours—made thus : Put two drachms of powdered alum 
into a pint of milk, boil it till the curd is well fepara- 
ted, then {train off the whey and bottle it. The like 
medicine in floodings, and in the whites has been 
found often ufeful; Tried.] 
140. To refolve coagulated Milk. 
Cover the woman with a table-cloth, and hold a 
pin of hot water, juft under her breaft ; then ftroke it 
three or four minutes. Do this twice a-day, till it is 
cured. 
141. To increafe Milk. 
Drink a pint of water going to bed : 
Or, drink largely of pottage made with lentils. 
142. To make Milk agree with the 
Stomach. 
If it lie heavy, put a little fait in it; if it curdl 
fugar. For bilious pcrfons mix it with water. 143. A Mortification (to flop.) 
* Apply a poultice of flour, honey, and water, with 
a little yeaft. 
[A gangrene is when any part of the body, from 
the violence of the inflammation is not actually dead, 
but is In a date of dying.—Galen. 
The inflammation {hould be abated by bleeding, ii 
the fever admit, and by cooling, opening- medicines : 
the parts around touched with vinegar, lime-water, or 
camphorated fpirits, and fcarified. Apply a poultice 
of bifcuit of fine wheat flour boiled with milk to the 
gangrened part, and take the bark freely. 
N. B. No oily fubflance fliould ever touch a bone, 
found or unfound, but foul bones fhould be dreffcd 
with fpirits, as tlntlure of myrrh, &c.] 
144. Nervous Diforders. 
When the nerves perform their office too languidly, 
a good air is the firft requifite. The patient alfo 
fhould rife early, and as foon as the dew is off the 
ground, walk: let his breakfafl be mother of thyme 
tea, gathered In June, ufing half as much as we do of 
common tea. When the nerves are too fenfible, let 
the perfon breathe a proper air, let him eat veal, chick- 
ens, or muttolr. Vegetables fhould be eat fparingly ; 
the moll innocent is the French bean ; and tfle befl 
root, the turnip. Avoid all fauces. Sometimes he 
may breakfafl upon a quarter of an ounce of the pow- 
der of valerian root infufed in hot water, to which he 
may add cream and'fugar. Tea is not proper. When 
the perfon finds an uncommon bpprefllon, let him 
take a large fpoonful of the tindlure of valerian root. 
This tincture should be made thus: Cut to 
pieces six ounces of wild valerian root, gathered in 
June, and fresh dried. Bruise it by a few strokes in 
a mortar, that the pieces may be split, but it should 
not be beat into powder: put this into a quart of strong white wine ; cork the bottle and let it stand 
three weeks, shaking it every day; then press it out 
and Jitter the tincture through paper. 
N. B. The true wild valerian has no bad fmell; if 
it has, cats have urined upon it, which they will do, 
if they can come at it. 
But I am firmly perfuaded, there is no remedy In 
nature for nervous dil’ordera of every kind, comparable 
to the proper and conftant uie of the electrical machine. 
Rub the part ttrongly with parfiey 
145. Nettle Rafh.* 
146 Old Age. 
Take tar-water morning and evening: Tried, 
Or, deco&ion of nettles: either of thefe will pro-, 
bably renew the ttrength for fome years : 
. Or, be electrified daily : 
Or, chew cinnamon daily, and fwallow your fpittle. 
147. An old llubborn Pain in the Back. 
Steep root of water-fern in water, till the water be- 
comes thick and clammy. Then rub the parts there- 
with morning and’ evenihg : 
Or, apply a platter, and take daily balfam of ca- 
148. The Palfy.f 
Be electrified daily for three months, from the 
places where the nerves fpring, which are brought to 
• A flight fever (which fometimes Infts for weeks or months} attended 
viiUl itching and fmarting, and an eruption juft like that occafioned by 
nettles. In Georgia, we call it the prickly heat. 
+ A palfy is the lofs of motion or feeding, or both, in any particular 
part of the body. the paralytic part—If the parts beneath the head 
are affefted, the fault is in the fpinal marrow. If half 
the body, half the marrow is touched. 
Or, ufe the cold bath if you are under fifty, rub- 
bing and fweating after it : 
Or, Hired white onions and bake them gently in an 
earthen pot, till they are foft : fpread a thick plafter 
of this, and apply it to the benumbed part, all over 
the fide, if need be.—I have known this cure a peribn 
of feventy-five years old. 
Or, take tar-water, morning and evening : 
Or, boil white and red fage, a handful of each in a 
quart of white wine. Strain and bottle it-. Take a 
fmall glafs morning and evening. 
jhTj™ This helps all nervous disorders. 
Or, take a tea-fpoonful of powdered fage lying 
down in bed. 
14-9. Palfy of the Hands 
Wafh them often in deco&ion of fage, as hot as you 
can bear: 
Or, boil a handful of elder-leaves, or, two or three 
fpoonfuls of mullard-feed in a quart of water. Wafh 
often in this, as hot as may be. 
150. Palfy of the Mouth. 
* After purging well chew mufiard-feed often ; 
Or, gargle with juice of wood-fage. 
151. Palfy from working with white Lead 
or Verdigreafe. 
Ufe warm baths and a milk-diet, 
152. The Palpitation, or Beating of the 
Heart. 
Apply outwardly a rag dipt in vinegar. Or, be electrified : Tried. 
Or, take a deco&lon of mother’s wort every night. 
153. Phlegm (fee Flegm.) 
154. The Piles (to prevent.) 
Wafh the parts daily with cold water. 
155. The Piles (to cure.) 
Apply warm treacle: 
Or, a poultice of boiled brook lime. It feldom fails : 
Or, varnilh. It perfedly cures both the blind and 
bleeding piles : Tried. 
Or, fumigate with vinegar, wherein red hot flints 
have been quenched. This foftens even fchirrhous 
tumours. 
[Take flour of fulphur, half an ounce : cream of 
tartar, half an ounce ; conferve of rofes an ounce, 
with fynip ’ enough to make an ele&uary : take the 
bulk of a nutmeg thrice a-day, and touch the parts 
with the following linament. Take burnt cork, two 
ounces; digeftive ointment, half an ounce ; linfeed 
oil enough to make it into a linament: I ried.] 
156. The inward Piles. 
Swallow a pill of pitch, faffing. One pill ufually 
cures the bleeding piles ; 
Or, eat a large leek,, boiled: 
Or, take twice a-day, as much as lies on a Hulling, 
of the thin fkins of walnuts powdered. 
157. V iolent bleedin g P iles 
Lightly boll juice of nettles, with a little fugar; 
take two, ounces. It feldom needs repeating. 158. The Pleurify.* 
Ufe a deco&ion of nettles; and apply the boiled 
herb hot, as- a poultice. I neyf r knew it fail. 
Or, a plafter of flour of brimftone and white of an 
egg : Tried—See Dr. Tiffot, page, 38. 
In dlibrders of this kind, Dr. Huxham advifes, 
Sip almoft continually thin whey, barley-water, or 
hyflbp tea, {harpened with lemon-juice ; or vinegar and 
water. If the fpitting flop i’uddenly, take a little 
vomit. Likewifc camphorated vinegar, with fyrup of 
elder or rafberries is good. To appeafe the cough take 
often, a little at a time of roalled apples, of ftraw- 
berries, rafberries or currants.” 
[There is alfo a baftard pleurify, which is an inflam- 
mation of the mufcles among the ribs, attended with 
little or no fever. In the true pleurify the pain is 
greatefl in infpiration, and is mod perceived when the 
unaffefled fide is lain on, attended with a conflant fever, 
fhort cough, and fpmetimes. a {pitting of blood ; 
thefe fymptoms do not attend the baltard pleurify. 
Tins lall diforder feldom needs bleeding, as -does the 
true pleurify ; the work is better done by a vomit and 
acidulated barley-water. But the pleurilies in North 
America do not admit of fuch large bleedings as in 
Europe, nor can the patients bear fuch large dofes of 
medicines ; the diet in the true pleurify fhould be {len- 
der, cool, and diluting : a bladder' filled with warm 
milk and water, applied to the fide, may be renewed 
when cool : he may drink a decodlion of feneca rat- 
tle-fnake-root, See. 
There are alfo pains in the fides which'are rrfoftly 
from flegm, and are carried off by watm diluting 
drinks, where-bleeding would be hurtful, elpecially in 
the fall of the year.] 
159. To one Poifoned 
Let one poifoned by arfenic, diffolve a quarter of 
* A pleurify is a fever attended with a vioknt pain in the fide, and a 
pulfc remarkably hard. an ounce of fait of tartar in a pint of water, and drink 
every quarter of an hour as much as he can, till he is 
well. 
* Let one poifoned by opium, take thirty drops of 
elixir of vitriol, every quarter of an hour, till the 
drowfinefs or wildnefs ceafes : 
•* Or, take a fpoonful of lemon juice, every half hour. 
* Let one poifoned with mercury fublimate, dif. 
folve an ounce of fait of tartar in a gallon of water, 
and drink largely of it. gO" This will entirely deftroy 
the force of the poifon, if it be ufed loon. 
Nothing cures the African poifon, but a deco&iop 
of the roots of the fenfitivc plant. 
160. Polypus in the Nofe 
* Pow'der a lump of alum, and fnuff it up frequently. 
Then dilfoLve powdered alum in brandy : dip lint there- 
in, and apply it at going to bed. 
161. A Prick or cut that fefters 
Apply turpentine. 
IG2. Ptyalifm. * 
A very violent and llubborn dlforder of this kind 
was cured by chewing perpetually a little dry bread, 
and fwallowing it with the fpittle. 
163. An eafy Purge. 
Drink a pint of warmilh water falling, walking af- 
ter : 
Or, a foft egg with a tea-fpoonful of fait : 
P 
A continual Spitting. Or, infufe from half a drachm to two drachms of 
damalk rofe-leaves dried, in half a pint pf warm water, 
for twelve hours, and take it : 
* Or, infufe three drachms of fena, and a fcruple 
of fait of tartar, in half a pint of river-water for 
twelve hours. Then {train and take it in the morning. 
Wild-alh is a plant of the very fame nature as fena. 
Its leaves taken in the fame quantity purge full as well, 
and do not gripe as fena does. It is therefore prefer- 
able to that which is brought from Turkey or Italy. 
wild-alh is called in the north of England, 
round-tree, quicken, quick-beam, or wiggan-tree. 
The leaves fhould be gathered when the tree is in 
flower. 
164. A ftronger purge. 
Drink half,a pint of ftrong dccoflion of dock-root; 
* Or, two drachms of the powdered root of monks 
rhubarb, with a fcruple of ginger. 
165. The Quinfy.* 
Apply a large white-bread tpaft, half an inch thick, 
dint in brandy, to the crown of the head, till it dries: 
Or, bleed, purge and blifter. 
166. Quiufy of the Breaft. f 
Take from eight to twenty drops of laudanum, ly- 
ing down in bed ; 
Or, make an iffue in the thigh. 
• The qninfy is a fever, attended with difficulty of (wallowing, and 
aften of breathing. 
t This is known by a hidden unaccountable pain and difficulty 
<jf breathing, Seizing a perfon in the night, or on any violent motion. 167. The Rheumatifm.* 
To prevent. Wear waflied wool under the feet. 
To cure. Ufe the cold bath, with rubbing and 
fweating : 
Or, apply warm ft earns : 
Or, rub in warm treacle, and apply to the part 
browm paper fmeared therewith; change it in twelve 
hours : Tried. 
Or, drink half a pint of tar-water, morning and 
evening : 
Or, fteep fix or fevcn cloves of garlic, in half a 
pint of white wine. Drink it lying down. It fweats, 
and frequently cures at once. 
* Or, take two cloves of garlic, and one drachm 
of gum ammoniacum ; beat them together in a mar- 
ble mortar, with a little water, fo as to make three 
bolufes. Take one of them night and morning, a.id 
drink falrafras tea freely : 
* Or, mix flour of brimftone with honey, in equal 
quantities. Take three fpoonfuls at night, two in the 
morning, and one afterwards, morning and evening, 
till cured. This fucceeds oftener than any remedy 1 
have found : 
Or, live on new milk-whey and white bread for 
fourteen days. This has cured in a defperate cafe : 
Or, pound the green ftalks of Engliih rhubarb, in 
May or June, with an equal quantity of lump-fugar. 
Take the quantity of a nutmeg of this three or four 
times a day. This feldom fails. See extradl from 
Dr. Tilfot, page 61. 
In a ftubbora rheumatifm, let your diet be barley- 
gruel, Avith currants, roafted apples, frclh whey, and 
light pudding. 
[Rub an ounce of camphire, Avith tAvo ounces of 
Florence oil, in a mortar, till the camphire be entire- 
ly diffolved, to rub the parts affected.—Buchan.] 
* Rheumatical pains are generally nrolf violent as foon as you are 
y:arm in bed. * Take of Florence oil, an ounce ; fpirit of hartf- 
liorn, half an ounce ; lliake them together. Pringle 
fays, a flannel mciftened with this, and applied to the 
pained part in rheumatifm, or to the throat in quinfy, 
is generally efficacious.] 
168. ri o reftore the Strength after a 
Rheumatifm. 
Make a ftrong broth of cow-heels, and waft the parts 
with it warm twice a day. It has reftored one who was 
quite a cripple, having no ftrength left either in his 
leg, thigh, or loins. 
* Or, mix gum guaiacum (In powder) with honey 
pr treacle ; take two or three tea-fpoonfuls (or as much 
iis you can bear without purging) twice or thrice a 
day. 1 his is the beft medicine I have met tvith for 
the chronic rheumatifm : 
* Or, diiTolve one ounce of gum guaiacum in three 
ounces of fpirlts of wine. Take fixty or eighty drops 
on loaf fugar two or three times a day This is Dr. 
Hill’s effence of bardana. 
* Or, drop thirty drops of volatile tindure of guai- 
acum on a lump of fugar, and take this in a glafs of 
water every four hours. It ufually cures .in a day ; 
ll'ried. 
169. Rickets* (to prevent or cure.) 
* Wafh the child every morning in cold water. 
170. Ring-worms.f 
Apply rotten apples : Or pounded garlic : 
Or, rub them with the juice of houle-leek : 
Or, walh them with hungary-water camphorated 
* [In the rickets the child is emaciated, except the head, kaces> 
4rid belly, which are fwelled, and the ribs arc deprelled-] 
t Vulgarly called tetters. Or twice a day with oil of fwcet almonds and oil 
®f tartar mixed. 
171. A Rupture. 
Foment with hot aqua vitm for two hours. 
Or, take agrimony, fpleen-wort, Solomon’s-feal, 
flrawberry-roots, a handful of each ; pick and waih 
them well; (lamp and boil them two hours, in two 
quarts of white wine in a veflel clofe fropt. Strain, and 
drink a large glafs of this every morning, and an hour 
alter, drink another. It commonly cures in a fort- 
night. A good trufs mean time is of great me. 
P 3 
• [A rupture, if old and irreducible, is to be fubmittccl to, arid can 
only be alleviated by fufpenfiorcin a b.ig-'trufs made of foft linen. If it- 
cent, its reduction Ihould be attempted inftantly by gentle continued 
preffure on the part: this is bell done by the perfon’s own hands, while 
liis body is thrown into a recumbent pollute. If this does not fue. c-ed, 
try the lull article under this head, and if the rupture Hill cannot be re- 
placed, but a conlldcrable degree of pain comes on, with ficknefs at the 
ftomach, and fever, draw a pint of blood from the arm,, and if the per- 
fon’s Hrength will at all admit it, repeat it again in fix hours, take one 
table-fpoonfal ofcallor oil every hour until it works, continue the afe of 
the above-mentioned article, ahd injcfl a pint of the deception of mal- 
lows or camomile in milk and water, llrained and well iweefened With 
brown lugar, as a clyller. 4 
If after twelve or fourteen hou-s, all tliefe methods fail either to re- 
turn the rupture or procure llools, and the pain and fickoefs at tic llo- 
mach rather increafc, with a beginning ft-ftiellbefi,. tie icafe becomes 
highly alarming and dangerous, and no time is to be ic/l; fteep a quarter 
of an ounce of Itrong tobacco in a pint of boiling water an hour, firain 
it off and bjeft it as a clyller. This may caue great ficknefs aad faint- 
nefs,fo as to alarm tiie by-Handers not a little, but is not dangerous,and 
will frequently fucceed when every thing elfc fails. 
After the rupture is reduced, a well-fitted Heel trnfs Ihould afterwards 
be always worn', arid the omifiion of it lor an hour, while in an ereft 
pollute, may be fatal. 
It is llrongly recommended, in every recent cafe of this kind, to call 
in a phyfician of experience as early after the accident as pofllble/as a 
chirurgical operation may be abfolutcly neceflary to fave the periods 
life. The above directions are intended chiefly for thole who cannot be 
benefited by the immediate attendance of a phyfician of (kill and repu- 
tation, no other ll.ould be trailed to in a cafe offo much importance.] “ I place,” fays Dr. Riviere, u a. broad plank floping 
from the fide of the bed to the ground. On this I 
lay the patient upon pillows, with his head downward. 
Then I foment the part for half an hoar, with cloths 
four times doubled, fleeped in cold water, gently 
touching it with my fingers. Afterwards I bind on it, 
many times doubled, a cloth fhaped like a triangle, 
wet in cold water.—The gut is generally reflored to 
its place in a few hours. If not, I repeat the opera- 
tion twice a day, and in two or three days the difcafe 
ir cured.” 
172. A Rupture in Children. 
Keep its bowels open with rhubarb and apply a fofc 
band. 
173. A fcald Head. 
Apply dally white wine vinegar : Tried. 
Or, a little blue ointment. 
After the cure, give two or three gentle purges. 
If a proper regard was paid to cleanlinefs in the head 
and apparel of children, the feald-head would feldom 
be feen. 
174. The Sciatica,* 
Is certainly cured by a purge taken in a few hours 
after it begins ; 
Or, ufe cold bathing*, and fweat, together with the 
flefh-brufh twice a day : 
Or, boil nettles till foft. Foment with the liquor, 
then apply the herb as a poultice.—1 have known this 
cure a fciatica of forty-five years handing : 
Or, apply nettles bruifed in a mortar : 
• The fciatiea is & violent pain in the hip. chiefly .in the joint of the 
thigh-bone. Or, a inucl made of powdered pitcoal and warm wa- 
ter. This frequently cures fores, weaknefs of limbs, 
rnofl diforders of the legs, fwelling and ftiffnefs of the 
joints. It cured a fwelling of the elbow-joint, though 
accompanied with a f hula, arifmg from a caries of the 
bone. See extra A from Dr. Tilfot, page 66. 
175. Inflammation or fwelling of the 
Scrotum 
Apply lead -water 
176. A Scorbutic Atrophy 
Ufe cold bathing :—Which alfo cures all fcorbutic 
pains. 
177. Scorbutic Gums 
* Walh them daily with a decodion of the penman 
bark, adding a little tindure of rofcs, with a folution 
of myrrh. 
* [Walh them with cold water, then with tindure 
of red roles, with as much fweet fpirit of fait mixed 
with it as can be conveniently borne : Boerhaave. Or, 
walh them with tindure of myrrh : Tried.] 
178. Scorbutic Sores. 
A diet-drink.—Put half a pound of frefh fhaved lig- 
num guaiacum (called by the block-makers lignum 
vitx) and half an ounce of fena, into an earthen pot 
that holds fix quarts ; add five quarts of foft water and 
lute the pot clofe. Set this in a kettle of cold water, 
and put it over a fire, till it has boiled three hours. 
Let it Hand in the kettle till cold. When it has Hood 
* Such a degree of the feurvy as caufrs the flefh to walk away lihe 
a ccnfunijtion. one night, drink daily half a pint, new milk warn?, 
in the morning, fading, and at four in the afternoon. 
Wadi with a little of it. In three months all the fores 
will be dried un : Tried. 
179. The Scurvy. * 
on turnips for a month : 
Or, take tar-water, morning and evening, for three 
months : 
Or, three fpoonfuls of nettle-juice every morni-ng : 
Tried. 
Or, decoction of burdock. Boil three ounces of 
the dried root in two quarts of water to three pints. 
Take half a pint daily : unleis it purges too much, if 
fo, take lefs. A decodUon of the leaves (boiling one 
leaf four minutes in a quart of water) has the fame 
effedt: 
Or, take a cupful of the juice of goofe-grafs, in a 
morning, fabling, for a month : it is frequently called 
hariff, or cleavers. Laft year I knew many perfons 
cured by it. 
Or, pound into a pulp, of Seville oranges, diced, 
rind and all, and powdered-fugar, equal quantities. 
Take a tea-fpoonful three or four times a day r Tried, 
Or, fqueeze the juice of half a Seville orange into a 
pint of milk over the fire. Sweeten the whey with 
loaf-fugar, and drink it every morning, new milk warm. 
To make any whey, milk fhould be fkimmed, after it 
is boiled. 
* Or pour three quarts of boiling water, on a quart 
of ground malt: ftir them well, and let the mixture 
hand covered clofe, for four hours : {'train it off, and 
* The (curvy; is known .by hcavlncfs' of body, wearinefs, rottenrxefs 
®f rums, and yellow, lead, or violet-coloured (pots on the legs or arms. 
K. B. A (curvy attended with coftivenels (which is mod common.) 
is termed a hot (curvy: one attended with loofenefs, a told (curvy. ufe this as common drink : in hot weather, brew this 
frefli every day. It will hardly fail. 
Or, take morning and evening, a fpoonful or two 
of lemon juice and fugar. “ It is a precious remedy, 
and well tried.”—Dr. Mackbride. 
Water and garden erodes, muftard and juice of feur- 
vy-grafs, help in a cold feurvy. 
When there is a continual fait tafle in the mouth, 
take a pint of lime-water morning and evening. 
180. A Broken fhin. 
Bind a dry oak-leaf upon it : 
Or, put on a bit of white paper moiftened with fpit- 
tlc. It will ftay on till the place is well : Tried. 
This cures a cut alfo. 
181. Shingles.* 
* Drink fen-water every morning for a week ; to- 
ward the clofe, bathe alfo : 
Or, apply pounded garlic. 
[It is neceffary that the body fhould be purged and 
kept loofe, then touch the part twice a-day with the 
following : Take muftard-feed powdered fine, and heft 
writing ink, as much as will make it into a linament : 
Tried.] 
182. Sickiflmefs in the Morning 
Eat nothing after fix in the evening : 
Or, drink half a pint of water impregnated with fix- 
ed air. 
183. Sinews fhrunk. 
Rub them with warm oil. 
• A kind of Ring-Worm, which encircles the body like a belt of a 
hand’s breadth. 184. Skin rubbed off. 
Apply pounded all-heal—It feldom needs repeatiag. 
Or, a bit of white paper v, ith fpittle. 
185. Small-Pox. 
Drink largely of toaft and water. 
Or, let your whole fyod be milk and water mixed 
with a little white bread : Tried. 
Or, milk and apples. 
Take care to have a free, pure and cool air. There- 
fore open tire cafement every day : only do not let it 
chill the patient. 
‘£ There may be puftules a fecond time, coming out 
and ripening like the fmall pox, but it is barely a Cu- 
taneous disorder. 
u In violent cafes, bleed in the foot ; bathe the legs 
in warm water, twice or thrice a day, before and at 
the eruption ; and apply boiled turnips to the feet. 
Never keep the head too hot. 
* u In very low depreffed cafes, wine may be giv- 
en : and if the puftules lie buried in the fkin, a gentle 
vomit. In many cafes a gentle purge of manna, cream 
of tartar or rhubarb. 
“ In the crude ichorofe fmall-pox, a dilh of coffee 
now and then, with a little thick milk in it, has often 
quieted the vexatious cough. 
“ After the iucruftation is formed, change the 
ftck : but let it be with very dry, warm linen.” Dr. 
Huxham. 
186. A long running Sere in the Back, 
Was entirely cured by eating betony in every thing: 
Or, take every morning two or three fpeonfuls of 
nettle-juice, and apply nettles bruifed in a mortar, to 
the part. This cures any old fere or ulcer. I. 187. A Sore Leg 
Bind a diaculum plafter, an inch broad, round the 
leg, juft above the fore, and foment it morning and 
evening, with hot water. 
Any fore is healed by a plafter of mutton-fuet ; e- 
ven though it fefter or breed proud flefh. 
188. A fore Mouth. 
Apply the •white of an egg beat up with loaf-fugaf : 
Or, gargle with tha juice of cinquefoil : 
* Or, boil together a pound of treacle, three yolks 
of eggs, an ounce of bole armoniac, and the quantity 
of a nutmeg of alum, a quarter of an hour. Apply 
this to the fore part: Tried. 
13$. A Sore Throat. 
Take a pint of cold water lying down in bed : Tried. 
Or, apply a chin-day of roafted figs : 
* Or, a flannel fprinkled with fpirits of hartfhorn 
to the throat, rubbing hungary-water on the top of 
the head ; 'fried. 
Or, fnuff a little honey up the nofe. 
An old fore throat was cured by living wholly upon 
apples and apple-water. 
* Lay nitre and loaf-fugar mixed cn the tongue. 
190. A putrid Sore Throat. 
Lay on the tongue a lump of fugar dipt in brandy ; 
Tried. 
[This fatal diibrder, efpecially among young chil- 
dren, begins with an ague' amd: fate throai, fometiracs 
a gangrene is begun in the palate, or near it in twelve 
hours and it fomecimes kills in tWehty-foqr hours : a 
vomit Ihould pe given as foon-as the diibrder is known, and occafionally repeated, the body kept loofe ; a gar- 
gle ufed of barley-water and honey (or honey of roles) 
and fait petre ; and when the gangrene is difcovered, 
the mouth-water fhould be made as ftrong as the pati- 
ent can bear it, with volatile fpirits of fal armoniac, or 
fome other volatile fpirits ; and the little patient often 
have his mouth walked with it, and folicited to drink 
barley-water, and take a preparation of the bark ; 
Tried.] 
191. A Sprain 
* Hold the part in very cold water for two hours .* 
Tried. 
* Or, apply cloths dipt therein, four times doub- 
led, for two uours, changing them as they grow warm : 
* Or, ba:he it in good crab-verjuice : 
* Or, boil bran in wine-vinegar to a poultice. Ap- 
ply this warm, and renew it once in twelve hours. 
192. A venomous Sting. 
Apply the juice of honey-fuckle leaves ; 
Or, a poultice of bruifed plantane and honey : 
Or, take inwardly, one drachm of black currant- 
leaves powdered. It is an excelent counter-poifon. 
193. The fling of a bee 
Apply honey. 
194. Sting of a Nettle 
Rub the part with juice of nettles. 
195. Sting of a Wafp, 
Rub the part with the bruifed leaves of houfe-Ieekj 
water-creffes, or rue .* Or, apply treacle, or fweet oil 
Or, bruifed onions, or garlic. 
196. Sting of a Bee or wafp in the Eye. 
Apply carduus bruited, with the white of an egg ; 
renew it if it grows dry. 
197* Sting in the Gullet 
Beat well together, with a fpoon, fome honey an<? 
fweet oil with a little vinegar ; fwailow a fpoonful eve- 
ry minute till eafe is procured. 
198. A Stitch in the Side. 
Apply treacle fpread on a hot toad: Tried. 
199* Accidental Sicknefs, or Pain in the 
Stomach. 
Vomit with a quart of warm water. 
200. Pain in the Stomach from bad Di- 
geftion. 
Take farting, or in the fit, half a pint of camomile- 
tea. Do this five or fix mornings j 
Or, drink the juice of half a large lemon immediate- 
ly after dinner,’ every day.—Dr. Mead. 
* Or, from twenty to forty drops of elixir of vitriol 
•in fage-tea, twice or thrice a-day : 
Or, in the fit a glai's full of vinegar ; * Or, take two or three tea-fpoonfuls of ftomachic- 
tinfture, in a glafs of water, thrice a-day. 
ICP’The tindlure is made thus : Gentian-root diced, 
one ounce : orange-peel dried, half an ounce ; cochi- 
neal, fifteen grains ; of proof brandy, one pint ; in 
three or four days it is fit for ufe.—This is ufeful in all 
diforders that arife from a relaxed ftomach. 
201. Choleric hot Pains in the Stomach. 
Take half a pint of decoftion of ground-ivy with 
a tea-fpoonful of the powder of it, five or fix morn- 
ings. I. 
202. Coldncfs of the Stomach. 
Take a fpoonfnl of the fyrup of the juice of carduus 
benediflus, fafting, for three or four mornings: I.\ 
Or, chew a leaf of carduus every morning, and fwal- 
low the fplttle ; Tried. 
203. Pain in the Stomach, with coldnefs 
and Wind. 
Swallow five or fix corns of white pepper, for fix or 
feven mornings : Tried. 
204. Stone (to prevent.) 
Eat a cruft of dry bread every morning : Tried. 
Or, drink a pint of warm water daily, juft before 
dinner. After clifcharging one ftone, this will prevent 
the generating of another. Stoop down and raife.your- 
felf up again. If you feel pain, as if cut through the mid- 
dle, the pain is not from the ftone, but rheuVnatifm. 
Beware of coftivenefs. Ufe no violent diuretics. Mead 
is a proper drink. Or, dice a large onion ; pour half a pint of warm wa- 
ter upon it. After it has flood twelve hours, drink the 
w ater. Do this every morning till you are well. 
205. In a raging Fit 
Beat onions into a pulp and apply them as a poul- 
tice, to the back, or to the groin. It gives Ipeedy eafe 
in the mod racking pain : Tried. 
Or, apply heated pariley. 
206. Stone (to cafe or cure.) 
Boll half a pound of parfnips in a quart of water. 
Drink a glafs of this, morning and evening, and ufe no 
other drink all the day.—It ufually cures in fix weeks : 
“ Or, take morning and evening, a tea-fpoonful of 
onions, calcined in a fire-fhovel into white allies, in 
white wine. An ounce will often diffolvc the done.” 
Or, take a tea-fpoonful of violet-feed powdered, 
morning and evening. It both waftes the hone, and 
brings it away. 
Or, drink largely of water impregnated with fixed 
air.* 
Thofe who have not a convenient apparatus, may 
fuhftitute the following method : Diffolve fifteen grains 
of fait of tartar in fix fpoonfuls of water, to which add 
as much water, acidulated with oil of vitriol, as will 
neutralize the fait. They are to be gradually mixed 
with each other, fo as to prevent the effervefccnce or 
diifipation of the fixed air, as much as poffible. 
207. Stone in the Kidneys. 
Boil an ounce ®f common thiflle-root, and four 
drachms of liquorice, in a pint of water. Drink half of 
it every morning. 
* [Some have been much relieved by drinking a pint of cold water 
falling in the morning, and again at bed-time at night.J 208; Stoppage in the Kidneys. 
Take decodlion, or juice, or fyrup ol ground-ivy, 
morning and evening : 
Or half a pint of tar-water. 
Or, twelve grains of fait of amber in a little water. 
209. The Stranguary 
Sit over the fleam of warm water : 
Or, drink largely of deception of turnips fweetened 
with clarified honey ; 
Or, cf warm lemonade : Tried. 
* Or, diffolve half an ounce of falt-petre in a quart 
of water ; drink a glal's of it every hour. 
210. Sunburn (fmarting.) 
Wafh the face with fage-tea. 
211. A frcfh furfeit. 
Take about a nutmeg of the green tops of worm 
wood. 
212. To Hop profufe fweating 
* Mix an ounce of tinfture of peruvfan bark, with 
half an ounce of fpirit of vitriol. Take a tea-lpoonful 
morning and night, in a glafs of water. 
213. Swelled Glands in the Neck. 
* Take fea-water every other day. 
214. Indolent Swellings, 
Are often cured by warm fleams. 215. S oft and fl abby S wellin gs. 
Pump cold water on them dail} 
Or, ufe coudant frictions : or, p 
or, proper bandages 
216. A white Swelling (on the Joints.) 
Hold the part half an hour every morning, under a 
pump or cock. This cures alfo pains in the joints. 
It feldom fails : Tried. 
Or, pour on it daily a dream of warm water: 
Or, a (tream of cold water one day, and warm the 
next, and fo on by turns : 
Ufe thefe remedies at firft, if poflible. It is like- 
wife proper to intermix gentle purges, to prevent a re- 
lapfe : 
Or, boiled nettles. 
217. To dillblve white or hard Swelling's 
O 
Take white rofes, elder-flowers, leaves of fox-glove, 
and of St. John’s-wort, a handful of each : mix them 
with hog’s-lard, and make an ointment. 
Or, hold them morning and evening in the {team of 
vinegar, poured on red-hot flints. 
218. To fallen the Teeth. 
Put powdered alum, the quantity of a nutmeg, in a 
quart of fpring water, for twenty-four hours. Then 
{train the water and gargle with it : 
Or gargle often with phyllerea-leaves boiled with 
a little alum in forge-water. 
219. To clean the Teeth 
* Rub them with afhes of burnt bread 220. To prevent the Tooth-ach. 
* Wafh the mouth with cold water every morning*, 
and rinfe them after every meal. 
221. To cure the Tooth-ach. 
Be electrified through the teeth : Tried. 
Or, apply to the aching tooth an artificial magnet : 
Or, rub the cheek a quarter of an hour : 
Or, lay roafted parings of turnips, as hot as may 
be, behind the ear : 
Or, put a leaf of betony, bruifed, up< the nofe : 
Or, lay bruifed or boiled nettles to the check : 
Tried. 
Or, Ia\r a clove of garlic on the tooth : 
Or, hold a /lice of apple, /lightly boiled, between 
the teeth : Tried. 
Or, diffolve a drachm of crude fal ammoniac in two 
drachms of lemon juice ; wet cotton herein and apply : 
Or, keep the feet in warm water, and rub them 
well with bran, juft before bed-time : Tried. 
firft twenty teeth generally laid till the fixth 
or feventh year. After that till the fourteenth or fif- 
teenth year, they fall out one by one, and are fuc- 
ceeded by others. 
The fhedding of the teeth is wifely intended, and 
brought about in a fingular manner. Their hardnefs 
will not admit of cliftenticn like other parts of the body. 
Hence, after an enlargement of the jaw-bone, the ori- 
ginal teeth are no longer able to fill up the cavities of 
it. They mutl hand unfupported by each other, and 
leave fpaces bettveen them. Under the firft teeth 
therefore is placed a new let, which by conftantly pref- 
fing upon their roots, rob them of their nourilhment, 
and finally pufli them out of their fockcts. 87 
222. Tooth-ach from cold Air. 
Keep the mouth full of warm water. 
223. Teeth fet on Edge, 
Rub the tops of the teeth with a dry towel. 
IC7" There is no fuch thing as worms in the teeth. 
Children’s ufing coral, is always ufclefs, often hurtful. 
“ Forcing the teeth into order is always dangerous. 
Filing is generally hurtful. 
“ All rough and cutting powders deftroy the teeth : 
fodo all common tindlures. 
“ Sweetmeats are apt to hurt the teeth, if the mouth 
be not rinfed after them. Cracking nuts often 
breaks off the enamel : fo does biting thread in two. 
* “ Conftant ui’c of tooth-picks, is a bad practice : 
conftant fmoking of tobacco dtftroys many good fets 
of teeth.” Mr. Beardmore. 
224. Extreme Thirft (without a Fever.) 
Drink fpring-water, in which a little fal prunellx is 
diilolved. 
225. Pain in the Tefticles. 
Apply pellitory of the wall beaten up into a poul- 
tice, changing it morning and evening. 
226. Teft ides inflamed 
Boll been-flour, in three parts water, one part vi« 
negar. 227. To draw out Thorns, Splinters and 
Bones. 
Apply nettle-roots and fait : 
Or, turpentine fpread on leather, 
228. Thru Hi.* 
Mix juice of celandine with honey, to the thlcknefs 
of cream. Infufe a little powdered faffron : let this 
fraimer a while and fcum it : apply it (where needed) 
with a feather. At the fame time give eight or tea 
grains of rhubarb ; to a grown perfon, twenty : 
Or, take an ounce of clarified honey ; having feu ra- 
ined oft' all the drofs from it, put in a drachm of roch- 
alum, finely powdered, and ftir them well together. 
Let the child’s mouth he rubbed well with this, five 
or fix times a-day, with a bit of rag tied upon the end 
of a ftick : and even though it be the thorough thrufb, 
it will cure it in a few days. I never knewr it fail. 
[As they generally proceed from too hot a regimen 
or the child being deprived of its mother’s milk, or 
fron acid humours, the child fliould be purged. Five 
grains of rhubarb and thirty of magnefia alba may be 
rubbed together, and divided into fix dofes, one of 
which fhould be given every four hours. Then take 
fine honey, an ounce ; borax, a drachm ; burnt alum 
half a drachm ; rofe-water, two drachms ; mix them 
to touch the parts with : Buchan.] 
229. Tonfils fwelled 
Wafh them with lavender-water 
• Little White ulcers in the mouth. 230. Torpor ; or, Numbncfs of the 
Limbs. 
Ufe the cold bath, with rubbing and fwcatlng 
231, T willing of the Guts. 
Ufe injection of tobacco fmoak. 
232. Tympany; or, Windy Dropfy. 
Ufe the cold bath with purges Intermixed : 
Or, mix the juice of leeks and ot elder. lake two 
or three fpoonfuls of this, morning and evening : fried. 
Or, eat a few parched peas every hour. 
233,. A Vein or Sinew cut. 
Apply the inner green rind of hazel freili (craped 
234. The Vertigo, or fwimming in the 
Head. 
* Take a vomit or two ; 
* Or, ufe the cold bath for a month : 
Or, in a May morning, about fun-rife, fuuff up 
daily the dew that is.on the mallow-leaves : 
Or, apply to the top of the head, (haven, a plafter 
of flour of brimllone, and whites of egg's : Tried. 
Or, take every morning half a drachm of nuiftard- 
feed ; 
Or, mix together one part of fait of tartar, with 
three parts of cream ©f tartar. Take a tea-fpoonful 
in a glafs of water, every morning, falling. This is 
ferviceable when the vertigo fprings from add, tough 
phlegm in the llomach. 235. Vigilia, Inability to Sleep 
Apply to the forehead, for two hours, cloths four 
times doubled and dipt in cold water. I have known 
this applied to a lying-in woman, and her life faved 
thereby ; 
Or, take a grain or two of camphire. 
Afafcetida, from ten to thirty grains, likewife will 
in moll cafes anfwcr. 
236. Bite of a Viper or Rattle-Snake. 
Apply bruifed garlic : 
Or, rub the place immediately with common oil.— 
Quaere, Would not the fame cure the bite of a mad 
dog ? Would it not be worth while to make the trial 
on a dog? 
[Or, take a quantity of bore-hound, bruife it well 
in a mortar, and fqueeze out the juice ; likewife plan- 
tane in like manner a table-fpoonful of thefe liquids 
mixed together in equal quantities, is to be taken eve- 
ry three hours till the infection is done, and the beat- 
en herbs are for a poultice to the part, having firll 
clean fed it well : 
Or, apply the liver and guts of the ferpent to the 
wound. Good in the bite of any ferpent.] 
237. To prevent the Bite of a Viper. 
Rub the hands with the juice of radifhes 
238. An Ulcer 
Dry and powder a walnut-leaf, and ftrew it on, and 
lav another walnut-leaf on that : Tried. 
Or, boil walnut-tree leaves in water with a little fu- 
gar. Apply a cloth dipt in this, changing it once 
in two-days. This has done wonders. Or, foment morning and evening with a decoction 
of walnut-tree leaves, and bind the leaves on. This 
has cured foul bones ;.yea, and a leprofy : Tried. 
239. Ulcer in the Bladder or Kidneys. 
Take a deception of agrimony thrice a-day : 
Or, decodlion, powder, or fyrup of horfe-tail. 
240. Ulcers in the Gum or Jan 
■Apply honey of rofes fharpened with fplrit of vitriol : 
Or, fill the whites of eggs boiled hard and flit, with 
myrrh and fugar-candy powdered. Tie them up, and 
hang them on flicks lying aciofs a giafs. A liquid 
diftills, with which anoint the fores often in a-clay. 
241. A Fiftulous Ulcer 
Apply wood-betony bruifecl, changing it daily 
242. A bleeding varicous Ulcer in the Leg, 
Was cured only by conftant cold bathing- 
243. A Malignant Ulcer. 
Foment morning and evening, -with a decoction of 
mint. Then fprinkle on it finely powdered rue : 
Or, burn to allies (but not too long) the grofs (talk 
on which the red cojeworts gi;ow. Make a pi after 
with this and frelh butter. Change it once a-clay : 
* Oc, apply a poultice of boiled parfnips., This 
will cure even when the bone is foul ; 
Or, be cle&rified daily-;. Tried. 244. An eafy anclfafe Vomit. 
Pour a dlfh of tea on twenty grains of ipecacua- 
na. You may fweeten it if you pleafe. When it has 
flood four or five minutes, pour the tea clear off, and 
drink it. 
245. To Hop Vomiting. 
Apply a large onion flit acrofs the grain, to the pit 
of ihe'ftomach: Tried. 
* Or, take a fpoonful of lemon-juice and fix grains 
of fait of tartar. 
246. Bloody Urine 
Take twice a-day a pint of deco£lion of agrimony; 
Or, of decodion of yarrow. 
247. Urine by Drops with Heat and Pain. 
Drink nothing but lemonade ; Tried. 
Or, beat up the pulp of five or fix roafted apples 
with near a quart of water. Take it at lying down. 
It commonly cures before morning. 
248. Involuntary-Urine. 
Ufe the cold bath : 
Or, take a fptionful of powdered agrimony In a lit- 
tle water, morning and evening : 
Or, a quarter of a pint of alum poffet-drink every 
night : 
Or, foment; with rofe-leaves and plantane-leaves, 
boiled in a fvnithV forge-water. Then apply platters 
of alum and bole armoniac, made up of oil and vinegar : 
Or, apply a blitter to the os facrum. This feldom 
falls. 249. Sharp Urine. 
Take two fpoonfuls of frefh juice of ground-iv 
250. Supprefllon of Urine, 
Is lometnnes relieved by bleeding : 
Or, drink largely of warm lemonade : Tried. 
Or, a fcruple of nitre, every two hours : 
Or, take a fpoonful of juice of lemons iweetened 
with (yrup of violets. 
251. Uvula* inflamed. 
Gargle with a deception of beaten, hemp-feed t 
Or, with a deception of dandelion : 
Or, touch it frequently wuth camphorated fpirits of 
wine. 
252. Uvula relaxed. 
Bruife the veins of a cabbage-leaf, and lay it hot on 
the crown of the head : repeat, if needed, in twe 
hours. I never knew it fail. 
* Or, gargle with an infufion of muftard-feed. 
253. Warts. 
Rub them dally with a radifh : 
Or, with juice of marigold-dowers : it will hardly fail; 
Or, water in which fal armoniac is diifolved : 
Or, apply bruifed purllain as a poultice, changing 
it twice a-day. it cures in feven or eight days. 
254. Weaknefs in the Ankles. 
Hold them in cold water a quarter of an hour, morn- 
ing and evening. 
• This is ufvully ciUed the Pilate of the mouth, 255. A foft Wen. 
Wrap leaves of forrel in a wet paper, and roafl them 
in the embers. Mix it with finely fitted allies into a 
poultice. Apply this warm daily. 
Dr. Riviere fays, “ I cured a wen as big as a large 
fill, thus : I made an inftrument of hard wood, like 
the (tone with which the painters grind their colours on 
a marble. With this I rubbed it half an hour twice a 
day. Then I laid on a fuppurating plafter very hot, 
which I kept on four or five days. The wen fuppur- 
ated and was opened. Afterwards all the fubftance of 
it turned into matter, and was evacuated. Thus I 
have cured many fmce.” 
256. The Whites. 
Live chaflly. Feed fparingly. Ufe exercife con- 
ftantly. Sleep moderately, but never lying on your 
back. 
Or, boil four or five leaves of the white holy-oak in 
a pint of milk with a little fugar. Then add a tca- 
Ipoonful of balm of Gilead. Drink this every morn- 
ing.—It rarely fails : 
Or, make Venice turpentine, flour, and fine fugar 
equal quantities, into finall pills. Take three or four 
of thefe morning and evening. This alio cures moil 
pains in the back : 
Or, take yellow rofin, powdered, one ounce; con- 
serve of rofes, half an ounce ; powdered rhubarb, three 
drachms ; fyrup, a fufficient quantity to make an elec- 
tuary. Take a large tea-fpoonful of this twice a-day, 
in a cup of comfrey-root tea. 
Or, in a quarter of a pint of water wherein three 
drachms of tamarinds and a drachm of lentifh-wood has 
been boiled : when cold, inf ufe fena, one drachm, 
icoriander-feed and liquorice a drachm and a half of 
each. Let them (land all night. Strain the liquor in 
the morning, and drink it daily two hours before 
breakfalt ; 257. A Whitlow, 
Apply treacle : Tried. 
Or, honey and flour : Tried. 
Or, a poultice of chewed bread. Shift It once 
a-day : 
Or, a poultice of powdered pit-coal, and warm 
water. 
258. Worms 
Take two tea-fpoonfuls of brandy fweetened with 
toaf-iugar ; 
Or, a fpoonful of juice of lemons ; or two fpoon- 
fuls of nettle-juice : 
Or, boil four ounces of quickfilver an hour in a 
quart of clear water. Pour it off and bottle it up. 
You may ufe the fame quickfilver again and again. 
Ufe this for common drink : or at leaf!:, night and 
morning, for a week or two. Then purge off the 
dead worms with fifteen or fixteen grains of jalap. 
Or, take two tea-fpoonfuls of worm feed, mixed 
with treacle, for fix mornings : 
Or, one, two, or three drachms of powdered fern- 
root, boiled in mead. This kills both the flat and 
round worms. Repeat the medicine from time to 
time. 
Or, dlffolve an ounce of hepatic aloes, in a pint of 
ftrong decoction of rue. Take a tea-fpoonful or two, 
in a morning fading. Thisdellroys both round worms 
and afearides : 
* Or, give one tea-fpoonful of fyrup of bear’s-foot 
at bed time, and one or two in the morning, for two 
or three fuccecding days, to children between, two and 
fix years of age ; regulating the dole according to the 
ftrength of the patient. 
* A child may be known to have the worms, by chilliners, patent 
hollow eyes> itching at the nole, flirting in lleep, and an unaiuai ilh 
ing breath—Worms are never found in children that live wholly up 
milk. Syrup of bear’s-fcot is made thus: Sprinkle the 
green leaves with vinegar, damp and drain out the 
juice, and add to it a lufficient quantity of coarfe 
fugar. This is the mod powerful medicine for long 
round worms. 
Bruifmg the green leaves of bear’s-foot, and duelling 
often at them, fometimes expels worms : 
Or, mix, and reduce to a fine pow’der, equal parts of 
rhubarb, fcaramony, and calomel, with as much dou- 
ble refined fugar, as is equal to the weight of all the 
other ingredients. The dole for a child, is from fix 
grains to twelve, once or twice a week. An adult 
may take from tw7enty grains to forty, for a dofe. 
Or, boil half an ounce of aloes, powdered, with a 
few fprigs of rue, wormwood, and camomile, in half a 
pint of gall, to the confidency of a plader ; fpread this 
on thin leather, and apply it to the domach, changing 
it every twelve hours, for three days ; then take fifteen 
grains of jalap, and it will bring vad quantities of worms 
away, fome burd and fome alive. This will cure, when 
no internal medicine avails. See extraft from Dr, 
Tiffot, page 145. 
[Or, take ten grains of camomile, thirty grains of 
rhubarb, and as much finely powdered chalk, or oyfter- 
fhells, for fix powders when rubbed together one to be 
taken every morning, noon, and night ; for a child five 
years old. Keep him from cold water. Take two 
drachms of quickfilver, boil it in half a pint of water till 
half is confumed, pour off the liquor and give him half 
a table-fpoonful thrice a-day, and lay by the quickfilver.} 
259. Wounds. 
If you have not an honell Surgeon at 
hand, 
Apply juice or powder of yarrow : I, 
Or, bind leaves of ground-ivy upon it: 
Or, wood-betony bruifed. This quickly heals even 
cut veins and fmews, and draws out thorns and fplinters; Or, keep the part in cold water-for an hour, keep- 
ing the wound doled with your thumb. Then bini 
on the thin fkin of an egg-lhell for days or weeks, till 
it falls off of itfelf. Regard not, though it prick or 
Ihoot for a time. 
260. Inward Wounds. 
Infufe yarrow twelve* hours in warm water. Take 
a cup of this four times a day. 
261. Putrid Wounds. 
Walk them morning and evening with warm decepti- 
on of agrimony. If they heal too foon, and a matter 
gathers underneath, apply a poultice of the leaves 
pounded, changing them once a-day till well: 
* Or, apply a' carrot-poultice ; but if a gangrene 
comes on, apply a wheat-flour poultice (after it has 
been by the fire, till it begins to ferment) nearly cold. 
It will not fail. 
[One of the bell poultices for feparating or fuppurat- 
ing, will be found to be made of bifeuit of fine wheat 
flour, boiled in milk : and moft additions or refinements 
on it only leiTcn its value ; fometimbs it may be proper 
to touch it ovfer with a little fweet oil or frefh butter ; 
and in extreme pain, in other cafes, with liquid lau- 
danum.] 
262. Wounded Tendons. 
Boll comfrey-roots to a thick mucilage or jelly, and 
apply this as a poultice, changing it once a-day. 
263. To open a Wound that is do fed 
too foon. 
Apply bruifed centaury. 264. Daffy’s Elixir. 
Take of the beft fena, guaiacum, liquorice diced 
fmall, anifeeds, coriander-feeds, and elicampane-root, 
each half an ounce ; raifins of the fun, ftoned, a quar- 
ter of a pound : let them all be bruited, and put into a 
quart of the beft brandy. Let it ftand by the fire for 
a few days, then ftrain it.—See page 27. 
265. Turlington’s Balfam.. 
Take of balfam of Peru, balfam of Tolu, Angeli- 
ca-root, and calamus-root, of each half an ounce ; 
gum ftorax in tears, and dragon’s-blood of each one 
ounce ; gum Benjamin, an ounce and a half; hepatic 
aloes and frankincenfe, of each two drachms ; let the 
roots be diced thin and the gums bruifed ; and put all 
the ingredients into a quart of fpirits of wine ; fet the 
bottle by the fire in a moderate heat for eight or ten 
days, then ftrain it for ufe. 
This is Indeed a moft excellent medicine, for man or 
beaft, and for any frefh wound. I know of none like it. 
266. Stoughton’s Drops 
Take gentian-root, one ounce ; cochineal and faf- 
fron, one drachm ; rhubarb, two drachms ; the lefier 
cardamom-feed, grains of paradife, zedoary, fnake-root, 
of each half an ounce -r galengale one ounce ; dice the 
roots, and bruife the feeds ; then infnfe them in a quart 
of the beft brandy, and add the rinds of four Seville 
oranges. When it has flood eight days, clear it off; 
and put a pint and a half more of brandy to the fame 
ingredients till their virtue is drawn out. This is 
greatly helpful in diforders of the ftomach.-—See flo- 
machic tincture, page 82. 267. Dr. James’s Powders. 
Inftead of giving half a crown a packet for thefe 
powders, you may, at any drugg-ift’s get Dr. Hard- 
wick’s fever-powder, for a (hilling an oimce, which 
(if it be not the fame) will anfwer juft the lame end. COLD-BATHING 
Cures Young Children of 
CONVULSIONS* 
Cutaneous inflammations, pimples, and fcabs 
Gravel 
Inflammation of the ears, navel, and mouth 
Rickets* 
Suppreffion of urine 
Vomiting 
Want of fleep. 
It prevents the Growth of Hereditary 
Apoplexies 
Afthmas 
Blindnefs 
Confumptions 
Deafnefs 
Gout 
King’s evil 
Melancholy 
Pallies 
Rheumatifm* 
Stone. 
It frequently cures every Nervous,* and 
every Paralytic Diforder : in particular. 
Ague of every fort* 
Atrophy 
Coagulated blood after brulfes 
Convulfrons * 
Convulfive pains 
Epilepfy * 
* And this, I apprehend, accounts for its frequently curing the 
bite of a mad deg, cfpecialiy if it be repeated for twenty or thirty ? 
days focccflivcly. Hyfteric pains 
Incubus 
Involuntary ftool or urine 
Lamenefs 
( Old) leprofy 
Lethargy 
Lofs of appetite 
Nephritic pains 
Pain in the back, joints, ftomach 
Rheumatifm (chronic)* 
Rickets* 
Rupture 
Suffocations 
Sciatica 
Surfeits (at the beginning) 
Scorbutic pains 
Swelling on the joints 
Torpor of the limbs, even when the ufe of 
them is loft 
Tetanus* 
Tympany 
Vertigo 
St. Vitus’s dance 
Vigilia 
Varicous Ulcers 
The Whites. 
• Wife parents Ihould dip their children in cold wa- 
ter every morning, till they are three quarters old ; 
and afterwards their hands and feet. 
• Wafhing the head every morning in cold water, 
prevents rheums, and cures old head-achs, and fore eyes. 
Water Drinking generally prevents 
* Apoplexies, convulfions, gout, hyfteric fits, 
madnefs, palfies, ftone, trembling. 
To thjs children fhould be ufed from their cradles. 
The beft water to drink, efpecially for thole who 
are much troubled with the wind, is rain-water. Af- 
ter it has fettled, draw it off clear into another veffel, 
and it will keep fweet for a long time. Electrifying, in a proper manner, cures 
Blind nefs 
Blor d extravafated 
Bronchocele 
Burns or Raids 
Coldnefs in the feet 
Contraction of the limbs 
Convulfions 
Cramp 
Deafnefs* 
Falling ficjcnefs 
Feet violently difordered 
Felons 
Fiflula lachrymalis 
Fits 
Ganglions 
Gout 
Head-ach 
Involuntary motion of the eye-lids 
Knots in the flelh 
Lamenefs 
W afting 
Weaknefs of the legs 
Reftores bulk and fulnefs to walled limbs 
Locked jaws or joints 
Leproi'y 
Meuftraal obftrudlions 
Ophthalmia 
Pain in the flomach 
Pally* 
Palpitation of the heart 
Rheumatifm* 
Ring-worms 
Sciatica 
Shingles 
Sinews fhrunk 
Spa fins 
Stiff joints 
Sprain, however old Sore throat 
Tooth-ach* 
Ulcers 
Wens. 
Drawing fparks remove thofe tumours-on the eye- 
lids, called barley corns, by exciting local inflamma- 
tion, and promoting fuppuration. 
Nor have I yet known one Angle inllance, wherein 
it has done harm : fo that I cannot but doubt the vera- 
city of thofe who have affirmed the contrary. Dr. De 
Hean pofitively affirms, “ it can do no hurt in any 
cafe that is unlefs the Ihock be immoderately 
flrong. 
Falling-fpittle outwardly applied every morning, has 
fometimes relieved, and fometimes cured 
Blindnefs 
Contracted finews from a cut 
Corns (mixt with chewed bread and applied 
every morning) 
Cuts (frelh) 
Deafnefs 
Eye-lids, red and inflamed * 
Scorbutic tetters 
Sore legs 
W arts. 
Afthmas 
Cancers 
Falling- ficknefs 
Gout 
Gravel 
King’s evil 
Taken inwardly, it relieves or cures 
Leprofy 
Pally 
Rheumatifm 
Scurvy 
Stone 
Swelled liver. 
The belt way is to eat about an ounce of hard 
bread, or fea-bifcuit, every morning, failing two or 
three hours after. This ffiould be done, in {tub* 
born cafes for a month or fix weeks. CONTENTS. 
Ak«. 
B0R1 ION to prevent * 1 
For an Ague - *2 
St. Anthony’s Fire 4 .3 
Apoplexy . - 4. 
Canine Appetite - 5 
The Afthma 6 
A dry or convulfive Afthma - 7 
To cure Baldnefs - 8 
Bleeding at the Nofe (to prevent) - 9 
Bleeding of a Wound - 10 
Spitting Blood - - 1 1 
Vomiting Blood - 12 
.To dilfolve coagulated Blood - 13 
Elifters - _ 14 
Riles - „ . i5 
Hard Breads - „ 15 
Sore Breads and Swelled - - 17 
A Bruife - _ „ 18 
To preyent Swelling from a Bruife - 19 
A Burn or Sqald - _ 20 
A deep Biyn or Scald - - 21 
A Cancer . *. 22 
Chilblains (to prevent) Stc. - 23 
Children _ 24 
Chin-cough, or Hooping-cough - 25 
Cholera i. e. Flux and Vomiting 26 
Chops in Women’s JSIipples _ 27 
Chopt Flands (tp prevent) - „ 28 
(to cure) - 29 
Chopt Tips - * on 
A Cold . . , , 
A Cold iij the head _ „ 32 
The colic -(in the Fit) - ~ 33 CONTENTS. 
No. 
The Dry Colic (to prevent) - 34 
Colic in Children - - 35 
Bilious Cplic . - 36 
An Habitual Colrc - - 37 
An Hyfteric Colic - 38 
A Nervous Colic - 39 
Colic from the Fumes of Lead, White Lead, 
Verdigreafe, See. 40 
Windy Colic - - 41 
To prevent the ill EfFe&s of Cold - 42 
A Gonfumption *• - 43 
Convulfions - - - 44 
Convulfions in Children - 45 
Convulfions in-the bowels of Children 46 
Corns (to prevent) - - 47 
(to cure) - 48 
Coftivenefs - 49 
A Gough - - - 50 
Violent Cough from a {limp and thin Rheum 5 I 
The Cramp (to prevent) - - 52 
(to cure) - - 53 
A Cut • - 54 
Deafnefs - - - 55 
Deafnefs from Wax - - 56 
Deafnefs with a dry Ear - - 57 
Delivery - - 58 
A Diabetes- « - 59 
The Drcpfy - 60 
Drowned • - - . 61 
The Ear-ach, without Inflammation -62 
Ear-ach from Cold - - 63 
Ear-ach from Heat - 64 
Hard Wax in the Ear - - 65 
Eyes bleared - - 66 
A Blood-lhot tye - - 67 
A Bruife in the Eye - - 68 
' Clouds flying before the Eye 
Blindnefs - - - 70 
Dull fight - ~ f 1 
Films - 
Hot or (harp Humours -